558 Notes to pp. 184–193
50 ‘Entretien avec Jacques Derrida’, in Janicaud, Heidegger en France,
vol. 2, p. 103.
51 ‘Implications’, p. 8.
52 Letter from Pierre Aubenque to Derrida, 6 December 1967.
53 Pierre Aubenque, Faut-il déconstruire la métaphysique? (Paris: Presses
Universitaires de France, 2009), p. 60.
54 Letter from Michel Deguy to Derrida, 10 September 1968. See also
Janicaud, Heidegger en France, vol. 1, pp. 240–60. [François Fédier
was a pupil of Beaufret and an important translator of Heidegger
- Tr.]
Chapter 5 A Period of Withdrawal 19681 Letter from Henry Bauchau to Derrida, 16 January 1968.
2 Letter from Henry Bauchau to Derrida, 11 July 1968.
3 Letter from Derrida to Henry Bauchau, 30 January 1968.
4 Letter from Jean Hyppolite to Derrida, 13 February 1968.
5 Gérard Genette, Bardadrac (Paris: Le Seuil, Coll. ‘Fiction & Cie’,
2006), p. 78.
6 Derrida, ‘Diff érance’, in Margins of Philosophy, tr. with additional
notes by Alan Bass (London: Harvester Press, 1982), p. 3.
7 Bulletin de la société française de de philosophie vol. LXIII, 1968, pp.
109–10. In a revealing piece of provocation, the original French text
‘La diff érance’ was published in autumn 1968 both in this austere
Bulletin and in the collective Théorie d’ensemble published by Seuil by
the ‘Tel Quel’ group. Two diff erent sets of readers, but also two reso-
lutely antagonistic worlds.
8 Derrida, ‘Typewriter ribbon: Limited ink (2)’, in Without Alibi, ed.,
tr., and with an intro. by Peggy Kamuf (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford
University Press, 2002).
9 Letter from Derrida to Henry Bauchau, 30 January 1968.
10 Letter from Samuel Weber to Derrida, 28 February 1968.
11 Interview with Samuel Weber. The story has been told in several
forms, including one version told by Heinz Wismann, in which the
‘false Derrida’ becomes a producer of pornographic fi lms.
12 The character of Rudolf Kastner and the negotiations that enabled
1,684 Jews to leave Hungary for Switzerland have been the subject of
violent polemics. For more details, see, for instance, Wikipedia: http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Kastner.
13 Derrida, ‘La langue n’appartient pas’, interview with Évelyne
Grossman, Europe nos 861–2, January–February 2001.
14 ‘Entretien avec Derrida’, in Janicaud, Heidegger en France, vol. 2,
p. 97.
15 Letter from Derrida to François Fédier, 27 November 1967.
16 ‘The Beaufret aff air’ is related in detail in Christophe Bident,
Maurice Blanchot: partenaire invisible (Paris: Champ Vallon, 1998),
pp. 463–67.
17 Letter from Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida to the contributors
to L’Endurance de la pensée, 2 April 1968.
18 Letter from Derrida to Gabriel Bounoure, 6 February 1968.