574 Notes to pp. 357–364
7 Sylviane Agacinski, Corps en miettes (Flammarion: coll. ‘Café
Voltaire’, 2009).
8 Sylviane Agacinski, Parity of the Sexes, tr. by Lisa Walsh (New York:
Columbia University Press), pp. 44–5.
9 Derrida, ‘In memoriam: Of the soul’, in The Work of Mourning, p. 72.
10 Derrida, Mémoires: For Paul de Man, p. 3.
11 Ibid., p. 49.
12 Jonathan Culler, On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after
Structuralism (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982), p. 85.
13 Mémoires: For Paul de Man, p. 41 n. 5.
14 Letter from Ruth Barcan Marcus to Laurent Fabius, 12 March
1984. This letter was quoted by Derrida in his book Limited Inc,
p. 158. The expression ‘terrorist obscurantism’, attributed to Michel
Foucault, was relentlessly repeated by John R. Searle in his attacks on
Derrida.
15 Letter from Derrida to the members of the Council of Administration,
the Haut Conseil de Réfl exion, and the Collège Provisoire of the CIPh,
12 January 1984, in the IMEC archives.
16 Interview with René Major.
17 Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, ‘Ouverture’, Rue Descartes no.
45, 2004: ‘Les 20 ans du Collège international de philosophie’, p. 28.
18 Ibid., p. 46.
19 From the early 1980s onwards, Derrida’s travels became so numerous
that it is impossible to mention them all in the present work. There is a
good description of them in the book he wrote jointly with Catherine
Malabou, Counterpath.
20 Derrida, ‘Psyche: invention of the other’, in Psyche, vol. 1, p. 1. Many
of his interventions from the early 1980s are brought together in this
bulky work (650 pages in the original French, split across two volumes
in English). In her article ‘Venir aux débuts’, Peggy Kamuf gave a
fi ne analysis of the opening lines of works by Derrida (Mallet and
Michaud, eds, Derrida, pp. 329–34).
21 Maurizio Ferraris, Jackie Derrida: Rittrato a memoria (Turin: Bollati
Borighiri, 2006), p. 36.
22 Postcard from Derrida to Sarah Kofman, n.d. (summer 1984).
23 Letter from Derrida to David and Suzanne Carroll, 5 January 1985.
24 Letter from Derrida to Michel Deguy, n.d. (February or March 1985).
25 Letter from Michel Deguy to Derrida, 14 March 1985.
26 Michel Deguy, Le Comité: Confessions d’un lecteur de grande maison
(Paris: Champ Vallon, 1988), pp. 75–7. Derrida started publishing
with Gallimard only indirectly, with the Dessins et portaits d’Antonin
Artaud, co-authored with Paule Thévenin and originally brought out
by the German publisher Schirmer-Mosel. Gallimard also published
the collective work Pour Nelson Mandela in 1986; Derrida was one of
the main contributors.
27 Luc Ferry has himself acknowledged this, in the portrait of him pub-
lished in Libération, 3 March 1997.
28 This is taken from the cover blurb of the original French text of the
book by Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut, Le Pensée 68: essai sur l’anti-
humanisme contemporain (Paris: Gallimard, 1985).