Derrida: A Biography

The Soldier of Koléa 1957–1959 97 strously silly’, declared that a Committee of Public Safety led by Massu had been formed and t ...

98 Jackie 1930–1962 it, off ers no centre of resistance to a dictatorship of colonists supported by the army. [.. .] I’m at a co ...

The Soldier of Koléa 1957–1959 99 and that is why I am here. I mean fraternity, because you are providing us with the magnifi ce ...

100 Jackie 1930–1962 to take part in this unjust war and tolerate his captain’s support for continued French rule in Algeria, Co ...

The Soldier of Koléa 1957–1959 101 Zhivago by Pasternak, which Michel Aucouturier had just trans- lated; Zazie in the Metro by Q ...

102 Jackie 1930–1962 constant interest, coming even before my philosophical inter- est, I would say, if this is possible, is tow ...

The Soldier of Koléa 1957–1959 103 cially mentally draining, but life in Le Mans is not much fun.’^22 After a few months, Genett ...

104 Jackie 1930–1962 one letter from Louis Althusser and another from Jean Hyppolite. Althusser was really happy to forward ‘a p ...

The Soldier of Koléa 1957–1959 105 conversations were ‘interdisciplinary’ long before that word became common: they moved from t ...

106 Jackie 1930–1962 my plans, texts, topics, etc. to your authority and experience. I think I’ll often be needing you, your adv ...

The Soldier of Koléa 1957–1959 107 to agree to his being placed at the disposal of Higher Education. Once he was free of his mil ...

7 Melancholia in Le Mans 1959–1960 Since spring, Genette had been tireless and patient. But some pupils in the hypokhâgne class ...

Melancholia in Le Mans 1959–1960 109 For this year at least, we’re in this big but peaceful provincial city of Le Mans. It has s ...

110 Jackie 1930–1962 tended to bring everything back to Kant. ‘You can tell a great philosopher from the way you fi nd him at ev ...

Melancholia in Le Mans 1959–1960 111 work on anything personal. He no longer felt up to staying in touch with his closest friend ...

112 Jackie 1930–1962 Your appointment was a foregone conclusion, since it was only the ill-will of the managers in the secondary ...

8 Towards Independence 1960–1962 The Derridas quickly found an apartment in Fresnes, in Val-de- Marne, very close to Orly airpor ...

114 Jackie 1930–1962 philosophy and logic’, free to organize my classes and my semi- nars however I wished, and working only in ...

Towards Independence 1960–1962 115 Critique of Pure Reason. But he was always available for those who showed real passion for th ...

116 Jackie 1930–1962 with ‘a desire to humiliate’. ‘When you say that you have “never heard a French Algerian replying with a pr ...