Derrida: A Biography

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new language”)’, in Jacques Derrida, Points... Interviews, 1974–1994,
ed. by Elisabeth Weber, tr. by Peggy Kamuf et al. (Stanford, Calif.:
Stanford University Press, 1995), pp. 119–20.
2 The interview with Didier Cahen, ‘Le bon plaisir de Jacques Derrida’,
was published as ‘Il n’y a pas le narcissisme’; English translation
(‘There is no one narcissism’) in Points.. ., p. 203.
3 Geoff rey Bennington and Jacques Derrida, Jacques Derrida, tr. by
Geoff rey Bennington (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), p.
322.
4 ‘À voix nue’, radio interview with Catherine Paoletti, published in
Jacques Derrida, Sur parole: instantanés philosophiques (La Tour
d’Aigues: Éditions de l’Aube, 1999), p. 10.
5 Derrida, Sur parole, p. 11.
6 Benjamin Stora, Les Trois Exils: Juifs d’Algérie (Paris: Stock, 2006), p.



  1. I am also drawing on another work by the same author: Histoire
    de l’Algérie coloniale, 1830-1954 (Paris: La Découverte, collection
    ‘Repères’, 2004), p. 32.
    7 Jacques Derrida, Learning to Live Finally: The Last Interview. An
    Interview with Jean Birnbaum, translated from the French (n.tr.)
    (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), p. 35.
    8 ‘Circumfession’, in Bennington and Derrida, Jacques Derrida, pp.
    51–2. For several other details in this chapter, I am indebted to the
    ‘Curriculum vitae’ given on pp. 325–36 of this work.
    9 Bennington and Derrida, Jacques Derrida, p. 130.
    10 Ibid., pp. 119–20.
    11 Derrida, Sur parole, pp. 11–12.
    12 Derrida, ‘Entre le corps écrivant et l’écriture’.
    13 Jacques Derrida, ‘L’école a été un enfer pour moi’, interview with
    Bernard Defrance published in Les Cahiers pédagogiques, 270 and 272,
    January and March 1989. The text of this interview was not revised by
    Derrida.
    14 Jacques Derrida, Monolingualism of the Other, or, The Prosthesis of
    Origin, tr. by Patrick Mensah (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University
    Press, 1998), pp. 26 and 44–5.
    15 Ibid., p. 26.
    16 Jacques Derrida, in Frédéric Brenner, Diaspora: Homelands in Exile, 2
    vols (London: Bloomsbury, 2004), vol. 2, Voices, pp. 67 and 21.
    17 Jacques Derrida, Memoirs of the Blind: The Self-Portrait and Other
    Ruins, tr. by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas (Chicago;
    London: University of Chicago Press, 1993), p. 37.
    18 Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida, Veils, tr. by Geoff rey Bennington
    (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001), p. 43.
    19 Conversations with Janine Meskel-Derrida, René Derrida, and
    Micheline Lévy.
    20 Catherine Malabou and Jacques Derrida, Counterpath: Travelling
    with Jacques Derrida, tr. by David Willis (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford
    University Press, 2004), p. 23.
    21 Quoted in Stora, Les Trois Exils, p. 78.
    22 Ibid., p. 87. For further details on the situation in Algeria during the
    Second World War, see also the collective volume Alger 1940–1962:

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