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16 Interview with Avital Ronell.
17 Letter from Yves Bonnefoy to Derrida, 14 July 1990.
18 Letter from Yves Bonnefoy to Derrida, 12 December 1990.
19 Letter from Yves Bonnefoy to Derrida, 19 January 1991.
20 http://didiereribon.blogspot.co.uk/2008/03/la-biographie-de-bourdieu-et-
la-mienne_14.html.
21 The Times, 9 May 1992.
22 Quoted by Marc Roche in Le Point no. 1029, 6 June 1992.
23 Interviews with Alan Montefi ore, Catherine Audard, and Geoff rey
Bennington.
24 ‘La chance et l’hospitalité’, speech delivered at Queen’s University,
Ontario, on 28 October 1995, IMEC archives.
25 Speech on receiving the Légion d’honneur, July 1992, IMEC archives.
26 Ibid.
27 Letter from Derrida to Édith Heurgon, 5 August 1990.
28 Letter from Derrida to Édith Heurgon, 20 March 1992.
29 Interview with Geoff rey Bennington.
30 This text was fi rst published in the huge volume that brought together
the proceedings of the conference ‘Le Passage des frontières’ (Paris:
Galilée, 1994). It was then republished in book form: Apories (Paris:
Galilée, 1996); in English as Aporias, tr. by Thomas Dutoit (Stanford,
Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1993), pp. 12–13.
31 Letter from Derrida to Catherine Malabou, 27 July 1992.
Chapter 6 Of Deconstruction in America1 Mitchell Stephens, ‘Deconstructing Jacques Derrida’, Los Angeles
Times, 21 July 1991.
2 The fi rst version of this very fi ne text was presented in April 1992, at the
University of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at the conference ‘Echoes from
Elsewhere/Renvois d’ailleurs’ on the initiative of Édouard Glissant
and David Wills. Le monolinguisme de l’autre was published by Galilée
in 1996; it was translated as Monolingualism of the Other, or, The
Prosthesis of Origin.
3 Mitchell Stephens, ‘Deconstructing Derrida’.
4 Based on a seminar given at the École Normale Supérieure in 1976–7,
Donner le temps was written during this period. Published by Galilée in
1991 as Donner le temps 1: la fausse monnaie, it was translated as Given
Time. 1. Counterfeit money, tr. by Peggy Kamuf (Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1992). The second volume was never published.
5 Richard Stern, ‘Derridiary’, London Review of Books, 15 August 1991.
6 Cusset, French Theory, p. 107.
7 Derrida, Points.. ., p. 211.
8 Derrida, Mémoires: For Paul de Man, p. 18.
9 This conference, organized by Anselm Haverkamp, was held in 1993;
Tom Bishop and Anselm Haverkamp chose the title, which Derrida
claimed had come as a surprise to him, but on which he commented at
length in his lecture ‘The time is out of joint’. The conference proceed-
ings were published in New York, by New York University Press, in
1995.