Who Was Jacques Derrida?: An Intellectual Biography

Index

absence, 82 , 86 , 118 , 178
Agaçinski, Sylviane, 25 , 254 n 1
Agamben, Giorgio, 219
Alcibiades, 142
Alexander, Natalie, 54
Algeria, 11 , 13 , 190 , 236 ; Arab rebel-
lions and war of independence,
16 , 18 – 19 , 25 – 26 , 48 ; Derrida’s
return to, 156 ; European settlers
in, 14 – 15 ; French conquest of,
13 – 14 ; Jews of, 15 – 18 ; World War
II in, 17 – 18
Allegories of Reading(de Man), 200
Allison, David, 165
Althusser, Louis, 66 , 69 – 70 , 218 , 228
analytic (Anglo-American) philos-
ophy, 157 , 164
anthropology, 64 , 75 , 76 , 95 , 96 , 130 ;
Sartre’s humanism and, 134 ;on
violence and writing, 87 – 91
anti-Semitism, 194 , 203 – 6 , 211 , 218 ,
233 ; in Algeria, 16 – 17 , 235 – 36 ;in
France, 16 , 237 ; Heidegger and,
212
Arabs, 13 , 14 – 15 , 16 , 17 , 19 – 20 , 237.
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Archive Fever, 180 , 236

Arendt, Hannah, 37

Aristotle, 157 , 253 n 7

Armstrong, Richard, 104

Aron, Raymond, 26 , 30 , 132

Artaud, Antonin, 9 , 41 , 99 , 115 , 200 ;

Derrida’s critique of, 116 ; mad-

ness and, 118 ; theatre of cruelty,

115 , 129 ; on writing about noth-

ing, 118

Auden, W. H., 97

Austin, J. L., 7 , 10 , 78 , 157 – 58 , 181 ;

Derrida’s opposition to, 35 , 129 ,

140 , 158 , 160 – 64 ; legal study and,

159 ; logocentrism and, 160 ;on

performative utterance, 158 , 160 ,

161 ; “phallogocentrism” and, 8 ;as

psychological thinker, 156

authenticity, 25 , 27 , 29

Bakunin, Mikhail, 133

Barthes, Roland, 93

Bataille, Georges, 9 , 30 – 31 , 101 – 2 ,

115 ; Derrida’s critique of, 116 ;

différance and, 33 ; Nietzsche and,

166

Baudrillard, Jean, 229

Beaufret, Jean, 134

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