Notes to pp. 177–184 557
27 Derrida, Speech and Phenomena, and Other Essays on Husserl’s Theory
of Signs, tr., with an introduction, by David B. Allison (Evanston, Ill.:
Northwestern University Press, 1973), pp. 4–5.
28 Denis Kambouchner, ‘Derrida: deconstruction et raison’, paper given
at Tongji University, Shanghai, 23 May 2007. (I am grateful to
Denis Kambouchner for letting me have this paper, unpublished in
French.) The reader can also usefully consult the article by Daniel
Giovannangeli, ‘La fi délité à la phénoménologie’, Le Magazine litté-
raire no. 430, April 2004, p. 40.
29 Letter from Jean-Luc Nancy to the author.
30 Derrida and Ferraris, A Taste for the Secret, p. 29.
31 Derrida, Of Grammatology, p. 99.
32 Claude Lévi-Strauss, letter published in the Cahiers pour l’analyse, no.
8, 1967.
33 Of Grammatology, p. xlix.
34 Le Monde, 18 November 1967.
35 La Tribune de Genève, 15 November 1967.
36 Letter from Philippe Sollers to Derrida, 20 July 1967.
37 Letter from Julia Kristeva to Derrida, 31 October 1967.
38 This interview was later published in the review Information sur les sci-
ences sociales VII in June 1968, before being reprinted in Positions in
1972.
39 Letter from Paul de Man to Derrida, 6 October 1967.
40 Derrida, Mémoires: For Paul de Man, tr. by Cecile Lindsay, Jonathan
Culler, and Eduardo Cadava; translations edited by Avital Ronell and
Eduardo Cadava (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), p. 72.
41 Paul de Man, ‘Rhetoric of blindness: Derrida reader of Rousseau’.
This piece, published in French in Poétique no. 4, 1970, as ‘Rhétorique
de la cécité: Derrida lecteur de Rousseau’, is one of the main chap-
ters in Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary
Criticism, second edition, revised (London: Methuen, 1983). For
Derrida, this article was a model of scrupulous generosity, unlike
many of the occasionally violent critiques to which his work gave rise.
42 Interview with Samuel Weber.
43 David Carroll, ‘Jacques Derrida ou le don d’écriture – quand quelque
chose se passe’, Rue Descartes no. 48, 2005: ‘Salut à Jacques Derrida’,
p. 100.
44 Letter from Gérard Granel to Derrida, 8 September 1967.
45 Gérard Granel, ‘Jacques Derrida et la rature de l’origine’, Critique no.
246, November 1967.
46 Ibid.
47 Derrida, ‘Gérard Granel’, in Chaque fois unique, p. 319. In this text,
Derrida states that Granel was never aware of the polemics that devel-
oped around the publication of his article in Critique. An analysis of
the correspondence proves the contrary. On 20 October 1967, after
softening a few formulations, Granel wrote to Derrida: ‘Do you really
think that “they” are going to howl here and there? We’ll see... .’
48 Letter from Granel to Derrida, 4 February 1968.
49 ‘Implications’, interview with Henri Ronse, Les Lettres françaises, no.
1211, December 1967. The interview was reprinted in Positions, p. 4.