568 Notes to pp. 291–298
11 Derrida, personal notebooks, note of 28–9 December 1976 (night),
Irvine archives.
12 Personal notebooks, note n.d. (December 1976), Irvine archives.
13 Personal notebooks, 30 December 1976, Irvine archives.
14 Personal notebooks, 24 December 1976, Irvine archives.
15 Personal notebooks, note of 31 December 1976, Irvine archives. This
fragment is published in slightly modifi ed form in ‘Circumfession’,
pp. 169–70.
16 Letter from Derrida to Paul de Man, 21 February 1977.
17 It was probably at this time that Derrida wrote ‘Limited Inc a b c
.. .’, his reply to John R. Searle, one of his most violent texts. I will be
discussing this in chapter 12.
18 Derrida, The Post Card, p. 7.
19 Ibid., p. 8.
20 Ibid., pp. 9–10.
21 Letter from Derrida to Sarah Kofman, n.d. (August 1977).
22 Derrida, The Post Card, p. 82.
23 Letter from Derrida to Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, 1 September
1977.
24 Letter from Paul de Man to Derrida, 14 May 1977.
25 Derrida, personal notebooks, note of 12 October 1977, Irvine archives.
This fragment is published in slightly modifi ed form in ‘Circumfession’,
p. 202.
26 Personal notebooks, 12 October 1977, Irvine archives. ‘Circumfession’,
pp. 207–8.
27 Personal notebooks, 14 October 1977, Irvine archives. Derrida pro-
vides a few further details on the attic and his way of working in ‘Je
n’écris pas sans lumière artifi cielle’, an interview with André Rollin,
published in 1982 in the review Le fou parle and republished at: http://
http://www.jacquesderrida.com.ar/frances/artifi cielle.htm.
28 Avital Ronell, Fighting Theory: In Conversation with Anne
Dufourmantelle, tr. by Catherine Porter (Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 2010), p. 155.
29 Agacinski, Aparté, pp. 112–14.
30 Derrida, ‘Living on’, p. 62. This text, published in French in Parages,
fi rst came out in English in the collective volume Deconstruction
and Criticism together with contributions from Paul de Man, J.
Hillis Miller, Geoff rey Hartman, and Harold Bloom (New York:
Continuum, 1979). It was viewed as a sort of manifesto for the Yale
School. The interminable footnote in the form of a diary running
under the text became especially famous.
31 Derrida, ‘Cartouches’, in The Truth in Painting, pp. 183–253;
pp. 239–40.
Chapter 11 From the Nouveaux Philosophes to the
Estates General 1977–19791 For further details on these changes in the publishing and media
scenes in France, see Olivier Bessard-Banquy, La Vie du livre con-
temporain: étude sur l’édition littéraire, 1975–2000 (Bordeaux: Presses