Notes to pp. 344–357 573
Châtelet, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Pierre Faye, and Dominique Lecourt
(Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1998), p. 2.
4 Letter from Derrida to Paul de Man, 15 July 1982.
5 Letter from Derrida to Jack Lang, 5 August 1982.
6 Letter from Derrida to Paul de Man, 15 July 1982.
7 Interview with Pierre Alféri.
8 Letter from Paul de Man to Derrida, 24 August 1982. This letter
fragment is quoted by Derrida in Mémoires: For Paul de Man, p. xix.
9 The sequence can be seen on the Internet, e.g. at http://www.youtube.
com/user/kenmcmullenweb/featured.
10 Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler, Echographies of Television:
Filmed Interviews, tr. by Jennifer Bajorek (Cambridge: Polity, 2002),
pp. 119–20.
11 Letter from Derrida to Pierre Foucher, 25 January 1984.
12 Letter from Jean-Pierre Faye to Derrida, 6 September 1982.
13 Interview with Dominique Lecourt. For all details concerning the
establishment of the Collège International de Philosophie, I also draw
on interviews with Marie-Louise Mallet and Jean-Pierre Faye.
14 Derrida, ‘Of a certain Collège International de Philosophie still
to come’, in Points.. ., p. 110; original interview with Jean-Loup
Thiébaut in Libération, 11 August 1983.
15 Letter from Jean-Pierre Faye to Derrida, 28 September 1983.
16 Letter from Derrida to Sarah Kofman, 23 September 1983. This letter
drew a brutal response from Sarah’s partner, Alexandre Kyritsos, to
which Derrida in turn reacted harshly.
17 Interview with Avital Ronell. Letter from Ronell to Derrida, 8 October
1983.
18 ‘Unsealing (“the old new language”)’, p. 466.
19 Letter from Derrida to Rodolphe Gasché, 22 August 1983.
20 Letter from Lucien Bianco to Derrida, 20 September 1983.
21 Letter from Derrida to Lucien Bianco, n.d. (November 1983).
22 Letter from Lucien Bianco to Derrida, 27 November 1983.
23 Letter from Derrida to Gérard Genette, 29 November 1983.
24 Letter from Derrida to Paul de Man, 12 December 1983.
Part III Jacques Derrida 1984–2004Chapter 1 The Territories of Deconstruction 1984–19861 Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida, ‘Bâtons rompus’, in Dutoit and
Romanski, eds, Derrida d’ici, Derrida de là, p. 218.
2 On this precise and highly personal sequence of memories, Sylviane
Agacinski agreed to provide me with details. I am deeply grateful to her.
3 Interviews with Élisabeth Roudinesco, René Major, and Jean-Luc
Nancy.
4 Interview with Pierre Alféri.
5 Derrida and Roudinesco, For What Tomorrow.. ., p. 43.
6 Sylviane Agacinski, Drame des sexes: Ibsen, Strindberg, Bergman
(Paris: Le Seuil, coll. ‘Librairie du XXIe siècle’, 2008).