Derrida: A Biography

From Husserl to Artaud 1963–1964 137 the same questioning. This is why it is of great importance to my life that, after reading ...

138 Derrida 1963–1983 ‘essential that an article on Levinas should appear in Critique before too long’.^36 He took this opportun ...

From Husserl to Artaud 1963–1964 139 Ever since the fi rst weeks of 1964, Derrida had been attending Levinas’s Tuesday evening c ...

140 Derrida 1963–1983 I immediately want – after a fi rst reading – to thank you for sending me your texts, with their dedicatio ...

From Husserl to Artaud 1963–1964 141 subject of his choice. Derrida promised to think about it as soon as he was freed from the ...

142 Derrida 1963–1983 realized that he was really unique. A very deep sense of com- plicity grew up between us. Thanks to him, I ...

From Husserl to Artaud 1963–1964 143 ductive months in the year for him, when he needed to prepare his lectures and write the ar ...

2 In the Shadow of Althusser 1963–1966 In the very busy year of 1963, Derrida also returned to the rue d’Ulm. Straight after the ...

In the Shadow of Althusser 1963–1966 145 to understand the various “logics” of French intellectual life in this century,’ Derrid ...

146 Derrida 1963–1983 years, the Salle Dussane would be the privileged meeting place of a new Freudian France, one more cultured ...

In the Shadow of Althusser 1963–1966 147 The situation soon became more serious. It rapidly became obvious that Althusser was co ...

148 Derrida 1963–1983 make his name. ‘Philosophical exchanges between us were rare, not to say non-existent,’ Derrida later told ...

In the Shadow of Althusser 1963–1966 149 to Jean Hyppolite, Derrida’s candidacy was straightforward and there would be few obsta ...

150 Derrida 1963–1983 that he would need for his thesis. He hoped that this work might lead to a short book that he would submit ...

In the Shadow of Althusser 1963–1966 151 I could see in this fl ight a failure, whether in thought or poli- tics. Inseparably. [ ...

152 Derrida 1963–1983 leçon, which is why I’d telephoned him to give him some encourage- ment. [.. .] Lacan’s daughter came fi r ...

In the Shadow of Althusser 1963–1966 153 followed a complex strategy: he pushed his students into radical positions, but did not ...

154 Derrida 1963–1983 on. I went to see him every time there was some point I couldn’t clear up, and each time he was very happy ...

3 Writing Itself 1965–1966 However great the quality of his fi rst publications, Derrida was still in a very fragile state of mi ...

156 Derrida 1963–1983 Over and above the expectations that Event touches off in me, over and above all the ways in which you are ...