Derrida: A Biography

Writing Itself 1965–1966 157 If Artaud absolutely resists – and, we believe, as was never done before – clinical or critical exe ...

158 Derrida 1963–1983 Pierre Boulez, and Roger Blin. But above all, there was Jean Genet, with whom Derrida was to form a close ...

Writing Itself 1965–1966 159 of any philosophical commitment? I can see, or think I can see, how one justifi es a choice, but I ...

160 Derrida 1963–1983 subsidiary role. But the ambition announced in these pages is not limited to questions of linguistics or a ...

Writing Itself 1965–1966 161 How heavy it is to bear the absence of a friend The friend who every evening came to this table And ...

162 Derrida 1963–1983 He would enjoy a long friendship with Roger Laporte, fi ve years older than he was and close to Blanchot a ...

Writing Itself 1965–1966 163 wife he ran a luxury boarding house for young American girls, the Institut Montessano, but he regul ...

164 Derrida 1963–1983 Though Derrida spoke in front of just a score of people that evening, in a little room of the Institut de ...

Writing Itself 1965–1966 165 keep together the philosophical, anthropological, and literary ques- tions that he cared most about ...

166 Derrida 1963–1983 On 30 September 1966, Derrida told Piel that he had started typing up Of Grammatology. In spite of a trip ...

Writing Itself 1965–1966 167 you want to say.’ Once again the thematic of ‘stolen ideas,’ the fantasy of owning concepts, the na ...

168 Derrida 1963–1983 philosophers in a really new way. In a few powerful paragraphs, the whole programme of deconstruction was ...

Writing Itself 1965–1966 169 the pharmakon, letter, origins, logos and mythos: He was pre- paring a text for Tel quel. [.. .] On ...

4 A Lucky Year 1967 The letter which Derrida sent to Gabriel Bounoure on 12 January 1967 showed the extent to which, even after ...

A Lucky Year 1967 171 with which Bounoure was very familiar – would work out soon. As he would say a littler later, his relation ...

172 Derrida 1963–1983 I’ve just read Badiou’s text. Like you yourself and Barthes, I fi nd it at least irritating in its tone, t ...

A Lucky Year 1967 173 on the thought of Emmanuel Levinas’, ‘ “Genesis and structure” and phenomenology’,^7 ‘La parole souffl ée’ ...

174 Derrida 1963–1983 what was happening over in Israel’. This certainly helped to bring him closer to Levinas. After commenting ...

A Lucky Year 1967 175 The essential thing is that you gain the qualifi cation you are seeking; your renown will not increase the ...

176 Derrida 1963–1983 the ‘renewed “Nuptials” with the Mediterranean’. ‘In my present state of idleness, which I had not experie ...