Derrida: A Biography

In Support of Philosophy 1973–1976 277 Marxist thought. It manifestly represents, in France and the whole world, one of the most ...

278 Derrida 1963–1983 an author by setting him on a ‘stage’ that was at once huge and yet always intimate, whose confi guration ...

In Support of Philosophy 1973–1976 279 ‘exercises’: writing on this, and then on that. To think together meant bringing to light ...

280 Derrida 1963–1983 Derrida returned to Paris even more tired than when he had left, with ‘a need for silence, for rest, for g ...

In Support of Philosophy 1973–1976 281 of the desperate gaze I keep fi xed on this scene, which I know too well, in some ways, I ...

282 Derrida 1963–1983 Blanchot. It has to be said that Derrida acquired an increasing mastery of the specifi c features of the A ...

In Support of Philosophy 1973–1976 283 In Derrida’s view, quite apart from any consideration of career, the essential element of ...

284 Derrida 1963–1983 were not merely theoretical. Towards the end of the 1960s, it was Abraham and Torok who convinced Margueri ...

In Support of Philosophy 1973–1976 285 A little further on, Lacan tackles slightly more specifi cally what had ‘rather frightene ...

286 Derrida 1963–1983 In his comments on 11 January, Lacan made a sideswipe at another great friend of Jacques and Marguerite De ...

In Support of Philosophy 1973–1976 287 In France there is not an analytic institution cut into four slices that it would suffi c ...

10 Another Life 1976–1977 Ever since the early 1960s, Marguerite had freed Jacques from most of the constraints of everyday life ...

Another Life 1976–1977 289 to have much direct infl uence on what we were reading. What was diffi cult to deal with was his perm ...

290 Derrida 1963–1983 in which he was paralysed and suff ocating. He sometimes expressed the desire to ‘start out on another, a ...

Another Life 1976–1977 291 The question he had to face was that of an ‘après-Glas’, something that went further than Glas, and w ...

292 Derrida 1963–1983 alliance’* and disgust with ‘community’. This very word makes me sick.)† These – largely unpublished – not ...

Another Life 1976–1977 293 to keep after the event a logbook, with the forgotten, frag- mentary, rudimentary instruments of a pr ...

294 Derrida 1963–1983 frightens me. But I am sure that the answer, if it gets to me one day, will have come to me from you. You ...

Another Life 1976–1977 295 now, he left with his family for Conca dei Marini on Italy’s Amalfi Coast, where the Adamis had rente ...

296 Derrida 1963–1983 And if I say – as is true – that at this moment I am losing life, this oddly comes down to the same thing, ...