Notes to pp. 193-201 559
19 Derrida, ‘Plato’s pharmacy’, in Dissemination, tr. with an introduction
and additional notes by Barbara Johnson (London: Athlone Press,
1981), p. 63.
20 Ibid., p. 171.
21 Ibid., pp. 71–2.
22 Ibid., p. 126.
23 Letter from Derrida to Philippe Sollers, n.d. (December 1967 or
January 1968).
24 Letter from Derrida to Philippe Sollers, 24 April 1968.
25 Letter from Jean-Pierre Faye to Derrida, n.d.
26 Letter from Jean-Pierre Faye to Derrida, 2 November 1967.
27 Letter from Jean-Pierre Faye to Derrida, 8 December 1967. For further
details on Faye’s break with Tel Quel and the creation of Change, see
Forest, Histoire de Tel Quel: 1962–1982 (Paris: Seuil, 1995), pp. 281–8
and pp. 342–6.
28 Letter from Jean-Pierre Faye to Derrida, 16 April 1968.
29 La Nouvelle Critique, November–December 1967, quoted in Dosse,
History of Structuralism, vol. I, p. 280.
30 Forest, Histoire de Tel Quel, p. 291.
31 Vincent Descombes, Modern French Philosophy, tr. by L. Scott-Fox
and J. M. Harding (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980),
pp. 169–70.
32 Derrida, ‘Contresignature’, paper given at the Cerisy conference
Poétiques de Jean Genet: la traversée des genres, August 2000, IMEC,
Jean Genet collection.
33 Bident, Maurice Blanchot, p. 473. My account also draws on an inter-
view with Éric Hoppenot.
34 Derrida, ‘A “madness” must watch over thinking’, in Points.. ., pp.
347–8 (trans. slightly modifi ed).
35 Derrida and Ferraris, A Taste for the Secret, p. 50.
36 Letter from Derrida to Henry Bauchau, 27 July 1968.
37 Letter from Derrida to Philippe Sollers, n.d. (summer 1968).
38 Letter from Philippe Sollers to Derrida, 24 September 1968.
39 Interview with Julia Kristeva.
40 Letter from Philippe Sollers to Jacques Henric, 9 September 1968,
quoted in Forest, Histoire de Tel Quel, p. 333.
41 Forest, Histoire de Tel Quel, p. 333.
42 Hélène Cixous, ‘Pré-histoire’, in Jean-Michel Djian, ed.,
Vincennes: une aventure de la pensée critique (Paris: Flammarion,
2009), p. 22.
43 Telegram from Hélène Cixous to Derrida, 7 August 1968.
44 Cixous, ‘Pré-histoire’, p. 22.
45 Interviews with Hélène Cixous and Gérard Genette. For further details
on the creation of Vincennes, see also Genette’s Codicille, pp. 310–12,
as well as ‘Bâtons rompus’, the dialogue between Cixous and Derrida,
in Thomas Dutoit and Philippe Romanski, eds, Derrida d’ici, Derrida
de là (Paris: Galilée, 2009), p. 190.
46 Interviews with Dominique Dhombres and Bernard Pautrat.
47 Letter from Bernard Pautrat to Derrida, 29 August 1968.
48 Counterpath, p. 269.