Derrida: A Biography

Portrait of the Philosopher at Sixty 437 Perhaps he did not wish to see their mediocrity. He was probably not unaware of the ser ...

438 Jacques Derrida 1984–2004 go for long swims. ‘He always said “I feel alive again”,’ remembers his brother René. Derrida, inc ...

Portrait of the Philosopher at Sixty 439 Derrida, the man of ‘too much’, was at least as much the man of too little. His solitud ...

5 At the Frontiers of the Institution 1991–1992 At the beginning of 1991, Seuil published in its series ‘Les Contemporains’ the ...

At the Frontiers of the Institution 1991–1992 441 The reviews were very positive, and also insisted on the contribu- tion Derrid ...

442 Jacques Derrida 1984–2004 nationalism was rearing its head again, often in bloody fashion, in the former Yugoslavia as in th ...

At the Frontiers of the Institution 1991–1992 443 his work. There were photos everywhere, including private or purely anecdotal ...

444 Jacques Derrida 1984–2004 years, with the changes of title (‘Nationality and philosophical nationalism’, ‘Kant, the Jew, the ...

At the Frontiers of the Institution 1991–1992 445 doing so, as it were, without any safety net.’^15 And Avital Ronell confi rmed ...

446 Jacques Derrida 1984–2004 his candidacy, though this would involve a somewhat convoluted strategy: Rather than presenting yo ...

At the Frontiers of the Institution 1991–1992 447 mathematician René Thom. According to their letter – which cannot fail to evok ...

448 Jacques Derrida 1984–2004 ‘war, both serious and comic’, that had taken place in Cambridge. ‘An event of that sort [.. .] ga ...

At the Frontiers of the Institution 1991–1992 449 before, when agreeing to the basic idea behind this conference, Derrida had ex ...

450 Jacques Derrida 1984–2004 historians and anthropologists such as Philippe Ariès and Louis- Vincent Thomas. For Der rida and ...

6 Of Deconstruction in America The vogue for deconstruction may have peaked in the mid-eighties, just before the de Man aff air, ...

452 Jacques Derrida 1984–2004 Monolingualism of the Other, Derrida told him his life story: that of a Jewish boy from Algiers wh ...

Of Deconstruction in America 453 Even physically, the change was very evident. In the United States, Derrida always seemed to me ...

454 Jacques Derrida 1984–2004 This alliance with a new generation of ‘supersexy, bold, bizarre women [who] showed up like surfer ...

Of Deconstruction in America 455 autumn, Wolfgang Iser in the winter, and Derrida in the spring. In fi ve packed weeks, Derrida ...

456 Jacques Derrida 1984–2004 years, he travelled less, preferring to save time so he could work in peace and quiet.^20 David Ca ...