562 Notes to pp. 225-232
51 Derrida, ‘L’ami d’un ami de la Chine’, in Aux origines de la Chine con-
temporaine: En hommage à Lucien Bianco, pp. ii–iii.
52 Interview with Martine Meskel.
53 The papers by Ricoeur and Derrida, and their debate, were published in
La Communication, Actes du XVe Congrès de l’Association des sociétés
de philosophie de language française (Montréal: Université de Montréal,
Éditions Montmorency, 1973). Ricoeur’s text was reprinted in La
Métaphore vive, a book he sent to Derrida with the following dedication:
‘For Jacques Derrida, this beginning of an explanation, looking forward
to new intersections, a homage of faithful thought.’ What has sometimes
been called the querelle de la métaphore was further pursued in several of
Derrida’s texts: ‘White mythology’, in Margins of Philosophy, pp. 207–71
(fi rst published as ‘La mythologie blanche’ in Poétique 5, 1971) and,
more directly, ‘The retrait of metaphor’, in Psyche, vol. 1, pp. 48–80 (fi rst
published as ‘Le retrait de la métaphore’, Po&sie 7, 1978). For further
details, see François Dosse, Paul Ricoeur, les sens d’une vie (1913–2005),
enlarged edition (Paris: La Découverte/Poche, 2008), pp. 359–63.
54 Letter from Derrida to Michel Deguy, n.d. (September or October
1971).
55 Interview with Alan Bass.
56 Derrida, Speech and Phenomena and Other Essays on Husserl’s Theory
of Signs, tr. by David B. Allison (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern
University Press, 1973. [‘Form and meaning: A note on the phenom-
enology of language’ appears on pp. 107–28 and ‘Diff erance’ appears
on pp. 129–60. – Tr.]
57 Letter from Paul de Man to Derrida, 13 October 1971.
58 Letter from Bernard Pautrat to Derrida, 16 October 1971.
59 Letter from Louis Althusser to Derrida, 29 October 1971.
60 Letter from Pautrat to Derrida, 16 October 1971.
61 For further details on these tragicomic ups and downs, see Forest,
Histoire de Tel Quel, pp. 384–441.
62 Letter from Louis Althusser to Derrida, 29 October 1971.
63 Letter from Jean-Louis Houdebine to Derrida, 2 November 1971.
64 This passage is quoted in a letter from Jean-Louis Houdebine to
Derrida, 12 March 1972, by which time the argument between the two
men had grown more rancorous.
65 Letter from Derrida to Rodolphe Gasché, 21 December 1971.
Chapter 7 Severed Ties 1972–19731 Letter from Derrida to Henry Bauchau, 7 January 1972.
2 Letter from Derrida to Philippe Sollers, 14 January 1972.
3 Letter from Derrida to Jean-Louis Houdebine, 18 January 1972.
4 Forest, Histoire de Tel Quel, p. 402.
5 Letter from Derrida to Édith Heurgon, 19 January 1972.
6 Letter from Philippe Sollers to Derrida, 23 January 1972.
7 The novel by Morgan Sportes, Ils ont tué Pierre Overney (Paris:
Grasset, 2008), mentions this episode.
8 ‘Curriculum vitae’, in Bennington and Derrida, Jacques Derrida,
p. 333.