Derrida: A Biography

Notes

Introduction

1 ‘Thinking Lives: The Philosophy of Biography and the Biography of
Philosophers’, conference, New York University, 1996. Excerpts from
Derrida’s remarks can be seen in the fi lm Derrida by Kirby Dick and
Amy Ziering Kofman (DVD available from Blaq Out editions, 2007).
Other fragments can be found on the Internet.
2 ‘Otobiographies: The teaching of Nietzsche and the politics of the
proper name’, tr. by Avital Ronell, in Jacques Derrida, The Ear of the
Other – Otobiography, Transference, Translation: Texts and Discussions
with Jacques Derrida, ed. by Christie McDonald; tr. by Peggy Kamuf
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, new edition, 1988), p. 5.
3 Jacques Derrida, ‘Others are secret because they are other’, interview
with Antoine Spire, reprinted in Paper Machine, tr. by Rachel Bowlby
(Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005), pp. 136–63; p. 145.
4 Jacques Derrida and Maurizio Ferraris, A Taste for the Secret, ed. by
Giacomo Donis and David Webb; tr. by Giacomo Donis (Cambridge:
Polity, 2001), p. 41.
5 Jacques Derrida, seminar of 1 February 1995, IMEC archives.
6 ‘Dialogue entre Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe et Jean-
Luc Nancy’, Rue Descartes no. 52, 2006, p. 96.
7 Jacques Derrida, ‘Entre le corps écrivant et l’écriture’, interview with
Daniel Ferrer, Genesis no. 17, December 2001, pp. 59–72.
8 ‘A life in philosophy’, in Geoff rey Bennington, Other Analyses:
Reading Philosophy, electronic text available on the site http://
bennington.zsoft.co.uk.

Part I Jackie 1930–1962

Chapter 1 The Negus 1930–1942

1 ‘Derrida l’insoumis’, interview with Catherine David, Le Nouvel
Observateur, 9 September 1983. Reprinted as ‘Unsealing (“the old