Derrida: A Biography

A Period of Withdrawal 1968 197 Obscure and The Space of Literature, whose health had been precar- ious for years, even seemed t ...

198 Derrida 1963–1983 Communistes Marxistes-Léninistes (Union of Communist Marxist- Leninist Youth), went into a sleeping cure, ...

A Period of Withdrawal 1968 199 the darkness. What you give me is really a crazy and unhoped-for support.’^38 The facts of the m ...

200 Derrida 1963–1983 sent this young woman to fi ll a post as professor at Nanterre even before she had had the viva for her th ...

A Period of Withdrawal 1968 201 straight after May ’68 who favoured the revolutionary spontaneity of the masses rather than part ...

202 Derrida 1963–1983 While the start of Derrida’s stay in America was quite ‘calm, slow and unhurried’, a real whirlwind of lec ...

A Period of Withdrawal 1968 203 me to belong, by all rights, to the fi eld and the problematic of our colloquium.^51 The rest of ...

204 Derrida 1963–1983 Pautrat, meanwhile, informed Derrida of the negotiations con- cerning the department of philosophy. He was ...

A Period of Withdrawal 1968 205 it was indeed the autumn – the end of certain type of membership in the university.’^59 Hyppolit ...

206 Derrida 1963–1983 only a poem could express. [.. .] But perhaps you still want to see things too clearly, where the place of ...

6 Uncomfortable Positions 1969–1971 At the start of the academic year, in autumn 1968, while Derrida was in Baltimore, a series ...

208 Derrida 1963–1983 competition between Derrida and Kristeva.’^3 This is also the impression of Goux, who was at the time frie ...

Uncomfortable Positions 1969–1971 209 will precisely have determined the limits of thematic criticism itself.^6 According to Der ...

210 Derrida 1963–1983 and drifted through the fl oor above, rousing frequent complaints. In the eyes of the Director of the Écol ...

Uncomfortable Positions 1969–1971 211 Bernard-Henri Lévy entered in 1968. In his book Comedy, he gave a colourful account of his ...

212 Derrida 1963–1983 Despite the increasing popularity of his seminar, Derrida some- times dreamed of leaving the ‘gilded fortr ...

Uncomfortable Positions 1969–1971 213 appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, by Philippe Sollers; it aroused considerable cu ...

214 Derrida 1963–1983 the notion of mythos, he tried to cast a shadow of political suspicion over Derrida, suggesting a link bet ...

Uncomfortable Positions 1969–1971 215 marked by the infl uence of the philosophy of Heidegger and by what is, in that philosophy ...

216 Derrida 1963–1983 He began exchanging views with Jean-Luc Nancy, a young assis- tant lecturer at the University of Strasbour ...