570 Notes to pp. 309–320
translate several of Derrida’s other major works at the beginning of the
1980s: Positions, Margins of Philosophy, and The Post Card.
4 Interview with Pierre Alféri.
5 Letter from Derrida to Paul de Man, n.d. (end of December
1979). This meeting is referred to in Mémoires: For Paul de Man.
6 The conference paper and the discussions following it were published
as The Ear of the Other.
7 Interview with Pierre Alféri.
8 Interview with Avital Ronell.
9 Derrida, ‘Unsealing (“the old new language”)’, in Points.. ., p. 118.
10 Derrida, The Post Card, p. 3.
11 Ibid., p. 232.
12 Ibid., p. 177.
13 Letter from Jean-Luc Nancy to Derrida, 22 July 1979.
14 Cover blurb to the original French version of The Post Card.
15 Interview with Alan Bass.
16 Letter from Derrida to Hans-Joachim Metzger, 13 September 1981.
17 Letter from Élisabeth de Fontenay to Derrida, 10 June 1980.
18 Interview with Pierre Alféri.
19 Max Genève, Qui a peur de Derrida? (Paris: Anabet, 2008), p. 103.
20 Libération, 6 June 1980.
21 Marcel Gauchet, ‘Les droits de l’homme ne sont pas une politique’,
Le Débat no. 3, July–August 1980, quoted in Didier Eribon, D’une
ré volution conservatrice et de ses eff ets sur la gauche française (Paris:
Léo Scheer, 2007), p. 102.
22 The episode is related in detail in Dosse, Paul Ricoeur, pp. 405–18.
23 Interview with Françoise Dastur.
24 Letter from Derrida to Paul Ricoeur, 1 July 1979.
25 Letter from Paul Ricoeur to Derrida, 17 July 1979.
26 François Dosse, Paul Ricoeur: le sens d’une vie (1913–2005), 1st edn
(Paris: La Découverte, 2001). This chapter was omitted from the
defi nitive version, but is freely available online: d05431_chapitres.pdf,
p. 99.
27 Interview with François Angelier.
28 Derrida, ‘Punctuations’, p. 127.
29 Remarks quoted in Alain David, ‘Fidélité (la voie de l’animal)’, in
Mallet and Michaud, eds, Derrida, p. 155.
30 I quote this intervention from Levinas’s manuscript notes preserved in
the Derrida archives at IMEC.
31 E-mail from Jean-Luc Nancy to the author, 29 January 2009.
32 Letter from Derrida to Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc
Nancy, 25 August 1980.
33 Postcard from Derrida to Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc
Nancy, n.d. (September 1980).
34 Les Fins de l’Homme, focusing on the work of Derrida (Paris: Galilée,
1981).
35 Dominique Dhombres, ‘Louis Althusser, le coup de folie du philo-
sophe’, Le Monde, 30 July 2006. A detailed account of Hélène’s
murder – from the point of view of Louis Althusser – is given in his
posthumous work, The Future Lasts a Long Time; and, The Facts, ed.