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9 Interview with Éric Clémens.
10 Letter from Derrida to Éric Clémens, 18 March 1972.
11 Ibid.
12 ‘Politics and friendship’, p. 210.
13 Interview with Jean Ristat. Derrida thanked Louis Aragon following
the publication of the special issue on him in Les Lettres françaises. On
30 March 1972, he wrote to say that he was fi nishing the ‘enjoyable’
reading of his book Henri Matisse, roman just down the road from the
building in Cimiez where Matisse lived.
14 Les Lettres françaises no. 1429, 29 March 1972.
15 Ibid.
16 Letter from Derrida to Roland Barthes, 30 March 1972.
17 Originally published in Poétique no. 47 (Le Seuil, September 1981),
‘The deaths of Roland Barthes’ was reprinted in Psyche, vol. 1, then in
The Work of Mourning, ed. by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas
(Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2003).
18 Tel Quel – mouvement de juin 71 – Informations no. 2–3, IMEC
Archives.
19 Ibid.
20 Interview with Bernard Pautrat.
21 ‘Reply to Derrida’, in Michel Foucault, History of Madness, ed. by
Jean Khalfa (London; New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. 575–90; pp.
574–5.
22 Foucault, ‘My body, this paper, this fi re’, in History of Madness, pp.
550–74; p. 573.
23 Ibid.
24 Derrida’s personal library.
25 Michel Foucault, ‘Prisons et asiles dans le mécanisme du pouvoir’, in
Dits et écrits I, 1954–1975, p. 1389.
26 Interview with Jean-Luc Nancy.
27 Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, tr. by Helen R. Lane,
Robert Hurley, and Mark Seem (London: Continuum, 2004), p. 1.
Descombes, Modern French Philosophy, p. 173.
28 This stormy dinner was recalled after another quarrel, in a letter from
Gérard Granel to Derrida, 8 April 1975.
29 Letter from Derrida to Roger Laporte, 24 June 1972.
30 Letter from Derrida to Roger Laporte, 4 June 1972.
31 Nietzsche aujourd’hui? 1 – Intensités, 10/18, 1973, p. 186.
32 Derrida, ‘Le modèle philosophique d’une “contre-institution” ’,
pp. 258–9.
33 Derrida, Spurs = Éperons. Nietzsche’s Styles = Les Styles de Nietzsche,
intro. by Stefano Agostini, tr. by Barbara Harlow, ill. by François
Loubrieu (Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 1979),
pp. 101–3.
34 Ibid., p. 107.
35 Nietzsche aujourd’hui? 1 – Intensités, p. 117.
36 Derrida, unpublished seminar, IMEC.
37 Interview with Maurice Olender. Although Derrida did not go so far
as to cancel his participation at a day-long conference organized by
Olender, who ran ‘La Librairie du XXIe siècle’, the series in which this