Derrida: A Biography

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582 Notes to pp. 435–445


59 For further details, see ‘The spatial arts: An interview with Jacques
Derrida’, conducted by Peter Brunette and David Wills, in Deconstruction
and the Visual Arts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
60 Interview with Bernard Stiegler.
61 Letter from Marie-Claire Boons to Derrida, 30 August 1982.
62 Letter from Derrida to Pierre Foucher, 5 February 1988.
63 Interview with Alexander García Düttmann.
64 Interview with Avital Ronell.
65 ‘Le bon plaisir de Jacques Derrida’, broadcast by Didier Cahen,
France Culture, March 1986. This fragment of the interview was not
published in Points de suspension or its English translation Points... ;
I am quoting from the transcription preserved in IMEC.
66 Derrida, personal notebooks, 30 December 1976, Irvine archives.
67 Derrida, ‘Circumfession’, p. 161.
68 Interview with Micheline Lévy.
69 Interviews with Janine and Pierrot Meskel, René and Évelyne Derrida.
70 Malabou and Derrida, Counterpath, p. 269.
71 ‘Télépathie’ was initially published in the review Furor in 1981.
72 Interview with Avital Ronell.
73 Derrida, Points.. ., pp. 139–40.


Chapter 5 At the Frontiers of the Institution 1991–1992

1 Interview with Geoff rey Bennington.
2 ‘Acts’, in Bennington and Derrida, Jacques Derrida, pp. 320 and 322.
3 Letter from Jean Bellemin-Noël to Derrida, 1 March 1991.
4 Le Nouvel Observateur, 14 March 1991.
5 Le Monde, 12 July 1991.
6 ‘Circumfession’ inspired, in an almost Talmudic way, several other
works: Hélène Cixous, Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish
Saint, tr. by Beverley Bie Brahic (New York: Columbia University
Press, 2004); Bruno Clément, L’Invention du commentaire: Augustin,
Jacques Derrida (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, coll. ‘Écriture’,
2000); and the conference organized by the University of Villanova in
September 2001, the French version of which was published by Stock,
in the series ‘L’autre pensée’, 2007.
7 Derrida, The Other Heading: Refl ections on Today’s Europe, tr. by
Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael B. Naas; intro. by Michael B. Naas
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992), p. 9.
8 Ibid., p. 82.
9 Le Magazine littéraire no. 286, March 1991, p. 16.
10 Interview with Carlos Freire. Four of the images are reproduced in the
present biography.
11 Interview with Bernard Pautrat.
12 Derrida, ‘Aimer-manger-l’autre’ (‘Loving-eating-the-other’), unpub-
lished seminar, session of 7 November, 1990, Irvine archives.
13 Ibid.
14 Yves Charnet, ‘Un jour pour parler’, homage to Derrida delivered in
2004 and published online: http://remue.net/cont/derrida_charnet.html.
15 Interview with Françoise Dastur.

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