Who Was Jacques Derrida?: An Intellectual Biography

Stoicism, 172
structuralism, 93 , 94 – 95 , 96 , 116 – 18 ,
120 , 129
“Structure, Sign and Play in the
Discourse of the Human Sci-
ences” lecture, 5 – 6 , 60 , 94 – 98 ,
100 – 101 , 114 – 15 , 170
student revolutionaries ( 1960 s), 6 ,
63 , 65 , 100 , 130 , 132 – 33 .See also
May 1968 revolt
Studies on Hysteria(Freud), 105 , 106
suffering, 6 , 7 , 64 , 239 , 246
superego, 103 – 4 , 143
Swift, Jonathan, 20
symbolism, 177
Symposium(Plato), 142 , 144 , 146 – 47

technology, 39 , 213 , 230
Tel Quel(journal), 64 , 71 , 102 , 144 ,
156
terrorism, 237 – 39
text, 2 , 5 , 57 , 63
Thales of Miletus, 159
thought, 9 , 30 , 35 , 78
Thus Spake Zarathustra(Nietzsche),
170
time (present moment), 53 – 55 , 57 ,
58 , 74
Todorov, Tzvetan, 94 , 211
Totality and Infinity(Lévinas),
124 – 25
Totem and Taboo(Freud), 109
trace, 83 – 85 , 91 , 107 – 9 , 110
trauma, 64 , 109 , 110 , 174 – 75 , 241
Tristes Tropiques(Lévi-Strauss),
87 – 91 , 97
truth, 34 , 59 ; art and, 200 ; faith in,
40 ; historical contingency and,
36 , 37 ;Nietzschean critique of,
98 ; perfect presence of, 143 ; sci-

entific consciousness and, 43 ;

women and, 166 , 167

Truth and Method(Gadamer), 185

Übermensch(overman) concept,

168 , 169 – 70 , 171

Ulysses(Joyce), 127

unconscious (Freudian concept),

52 , 64 , 77 , 180 ; as immortal sub-

stance, 109 ; linguistic nature of, 3 ;

mystic writing pad and, 108 ;as

palimpsest, 91

United States, 24 , 136 , 234 ; capital

punishment in, 233 ; as decon-

struction, 182 ; Holocaust deniers

in, 236 ; politicized avant-garde

in, 60 – 61 ; in World War II, 18

Valéry, Paul, 20 , 213 , 219

Vernant, Jean-Pierre, 93 , 184

Vichy regime, 17 , 18 , 256 n 6

Vietnam War, 25 , 131

violence, 125 , 133 , 223

“Violence and Metaphysics,” 125 – 29

Virilio, Paul, 229

voice, 49 , 57 – 58 , 63 , 68 ; being and,

72 – 73 ; as central value of Western

thought, 72 ; meaning and, 76 ;

presence and, 73

Wagner, Richard, 205

Weber, Max, 39

Weber, Samuel, 207

Weiss, Theodore, 197 – 98

Western civilization, 43 , 77 , 87 , 138

What Is Literature?(Sartre), 25

“Whither Marxism?” lectures, 226

“Who Am I and Who Are You?”

(Gadamer), 189

Wiener, Jon, 211

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