Notes to pp. 299–309 569
Universitaires de Bordeaux & du Lérot, éditeur) and Les Intellocrates
by Hervé Hamon and Patrick Rotman (Paris: Ramsay, 1981).
2 Gilles Deleuze, À propos des nouveaux philosophes et d’un problème plus
général, free supplement to no. 24 of the review Minuit, May 1977.
3 Letter from Jean Piel to Derrida, 29 August 1977.
4 Letter from Derrida to Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, 1 September
1977.
5 Letter from Derrida to Jean Piel, 9 September 1977.
6 Interview with Daniel Giovannangeli. A revised version of this thesis
was published in 1979 in the 10/18 series as Écriture et répétition:
approche de Derrida.
7 Derrida, ‘Ja, ou le faux-bond’, interview with Denis Kambouchner,
Jean Ristat, and Danièle Sallenave published in Digraphe no. 11,
March 1977. Reprinted in Points... and translated in the English
version of the same volume as ‘Ja, or the faux-bond II’, pp. 71–2.
8 Letter from Derrida to Madeleine Aubier-Gabail, 4 April 1978.
9 Letter from Derrida to Sarah Kofman, 8 August 1978.
10 Letter from Jean-Luc Nancy to Derrida, 22 April 1979.
11 Letter from Derrida to Jean-Luc Nancy, n.d. (April 1979).
12 Ibid.
13 Vladimir Jankélévitch, ‘Pour la philosophie’, in États généraux de la
philosophie (Paris: Champs-Flammarion, 1979), pp. 23–6.
14 Derrida, ‘Philosophie des états généraux’, in États généraux de la
philosophie, p. 37.
15 Interview with Bernard-Henri Lévy.
16 Ibid.
17 États généraux de la philosophie, pp. 205–6.
18 Who’s Afraid of Philosophy?, p. 192.
19 Letter from Catherine Clément to Derrida, 22 June 1979. Many thanks
to Catherine Clément for agreeing, after her initial reluctance, to the
publication of this extremely revealing letter.
20 For a more detailed analysis of this phenomenon, see Geoff rey de
Lagasnerie, L’Empire de l’Université: sur Bourdieu, les intellectuels et le
journalisme (Paris: Éditions Amsterdam, 2007).
21 http://www.mediapart.fr/club/edition/les-invites-de-mediapart/
article/050210/defense-de-philosopher.
Chapter 12 Postcards and Proofs 1979–19811 Derrida, ‘Envois’, in The Post Card, p. 197. ‘Me – psychoanalysis’ was
fi rst published in English in Diacritics, spring 1977; it was published in
French in Psyché, and the English version later appeared in Psyche,
vol. 1.
2 Interview with Avital Ronell.
3 Soon after receiving the work, Derrida fully expressed his gratitude to
Alan Bass for this work ‘of an intelligence, a rigour and a proximity, a
probity too and a generosity that are all exemplary. [.. .] The transla-
tion of a book in the United States is a sort of rebirth [.. .] and this is
due to you’ (letter from Derrida to Bass, 23 November 1978). Even
though he had by now become a psychoanalyst, Alan Bass went on to