Derrida: A Biography

4 Portrait of the Philosopher at Sixty In 1992, Jacques Derrida gave Osvaldo Muñoz an interview which concluded with a tradition ...

418 Jacques Derrida 1984–2004 ‘Jacques was permanently overworked,’ explains his son Pierre. Too many conference papers and trip ...

Portrait of the Philosopher at Sixty 419 would keep in touch with them by writing or telephone, and showed real empathy. He was ...

420 Jacques Derrida 1984–2004 Even though the idea of death never left him, Derrida in many ways lived life to the full. Jean-Lu ...

Portrait of the Philosopher at Sixty 421 I got there, I was dead beat. I tried to grab forty winks in the car that came to pick ...

422 Jacques Derrida 1984–2004 But many people knew that ‘the feminine’ was, for him, always in the plural. If Derrida vaunted fa ...

Portrait of the Philosopher at Sixty 423 the diffi culties and rejections that he had also suff ered, held little importance for ...

424 Jacques Derrida 1984–2004 years spent in his ‘sublime’, the little attic where he could not stand upright, he moved onto the ...

Portrait of the Philosopher at Sixty 425 working at home; I can’t even remember or understand how I was able to get on before it ...

426 Jacques Derrida 1984–2004 sometimes held his head in his hands, as if he were lost in thought. In actual fact, he was taking ...

Portrait of the Philosopher at Sixty 427 Later on, with me and in front of me, he said he was a vegetar- ian. But one day, someo ...

428 Jacques Derrida 1984–2004 were two areas he didn’t go into: clothes, and his relationship with women.’^35 For a long time, t ...

Portrait of the Philosopher at Sixty 429 freely, especially when he wanted to impress young women. In those cases, he was quite ...

430 Jacques Derrida 1984–2004 veritable writing.^40 For a long time, when it came to all the texts important to him, Derrida sta ...

Portrait of the Philosopher at Sixty 431 you have to be discovered by the addressee for the tone to be placed. That’s basically ...

432 Jacques Derrida 1984–2004 Like his readings, Derrida associated his travels with the notion of work, of a mission to be acco ...

Portrait of the Philosopher at Sixty 433 that was now inaccessible. Derrida loved Naples and Pompeii, Capri, Paestum, and Sicily ...

434 Jacques Derrida 1984–2004 was that of a racket in the back seat of a 2 CV. During the 1980s, he went jogging, something he h ...

Portrait of the Philosopher at Sixty 435 with a sincerity that he himself described as brutal, that there had not been the ‘slig ...

436 Jacques Derrida 1984–2004 inaccessible to me. You don’t write to me, you don’t reply to me. I’m tired of never knowing how y ...