Derrida: A Biography

Postcards and Proofs 1979–1981 317 placed you among the master fi gures of our generation. But the fact that a philosopher such ...

318 Derrida 1963–1983 pair quickly left Cerisy. Five years later, in French Philosophy of the Sixties, they would attack Derrida ...

Postcards and Proofs 1979–1981 319 As he recounted in a letter to Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe during August, ‘by a strange twist o ...

320 Derrida 1963–1983 repeating the same sentence: ‘I’ve killed Hélène, what comes next?’ Dr Étienne called the Sainte-Anne hosp ...

Postcards and Proofs 1979–1981 321 École, M. Bousquet, was unavailable for comment. The con- cierge had been instructed to remai ...

322 Derrida 1963–1983 Communism in a nutshell: it starts in the mists of philosophy and ends in a sordid Grand Guignol episode. ...

Postcards and Proofs 1979–1981 323 General – decided to remove any ambiguity by reminding everyone that there was nothing except ...

324 Derrida 1963–1983 and jealousy. When he was in a manic phase, Louis could be very mordant, even if he often disguised his ag ...

Postcards and Proofs 1979–1981 325 At the beginning of March 1981, [Derrida and I] were both subjected to the same ordeal. It so ...

326 Derrida 1963–1983 [.. .] After the ‘work’ of the autumn (teaching, several articles, conference papers, trips until February ...

Postcards and Proofs 1979–1981 327 France, especially not the French university system: ‘Are things going to change now? As rega ...

328 Derrida 1963–1983 before his arrival in the United States, de Man referred one day in conversation to a novel by Henri Thoma ...

Postcards and Proofs 1979–1981 329 he remained accessible to his pupils and attentive to their personal careers, things had beco ...

330 Derrida 1963–1983 and teaching to be weakened or destroyed.’ So it was important to defi ne ‘the conditions of survival and ...

Postcards and Proofs 1979–1981 331 it was a diff erent matter. I’ve always been able to do what I wanted in seminars. But when I ...

13 Night in Prague 1981–1982 Ever since the crushing of the Prague Spring, in August 1968, the situation in Czechoslovakia had b ...

Night in Prague 1981–1982 333 insignifi cant and necessitated several precautions. The fi rst missions were marked by several in ...

334 Derrida 1963–1983 useful to them in their situation. At the end of the session, the con- versation became more informal. Der ...

Night in Prague 1981–1982 335 The prosecutor, the police chief, the translator, and the lawyer assigned to me knew very well why ...

336 Derrida 1963–1983 her in Ris-Orangis for a few days; Jean, then fourteen years old, was with her too. Panic-stricken, Margue ...