Notes to pp. 364–374 575
29 Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut, French Philosophy of the Sixties:
An Essay on Antihumanism, tr. by Mary H.S. Cattani (Cambridge:
University of Massachusetts Press, 1990), p. 123.
30 Ibid., p. 140.
31 The book by Ferry and Renaut is mentioned several times in the fi rst
chapter, ‘Choosing one’s heritage’, of For What Tomorrow.. .. It was
republished in 2003 in the Champs-Flammarion series.
32 Interview with Élisabeth Roudinesco.
33 Letter from Élisabeth Roudinesco to Derrida, 6 June 1985.
34 Interview with Étienne Balibar.
35 Derrida, ‘Politics and friendship’, pp. 189–90.
36 Letter from Derrida to Jean-Luc Nancy, 15 March 1985.
37 Letter from Charles-Henri Flammarion to the four directors of the
series ‘La philosophie en eff et’, 15 July 1985.
38 Parages, ed. by John P. Leavey, tr. by Tom Conley, James Hulbert,
John P. Leavey, and Avital Ronell (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford
University Press, 2011), p. 3. The original French, with the same title
(Paris: Galilée, 1986), was brought out in a new edition in 2003, with
an additional text, ‘Maurice Blanchot est mort’ (‘Maurice Blanchot is
dead’).
39 ‘Grâce (soit) rendue à Jacques Derrida’ is the title of Maurice
Blanchot’s text written for an issue of the Revue philosophique de la
France et de l’étranger (no. 2, April–June 1990) and republished in
Mallet and Michaud, eds, Derrida.
40 Letter from Maurice Blanchot to Derrida, 21 August 1985.
41 Letter from Maurice Blanchot to Derrida, 10 March 1986. Quoted in
Mallet and Michaud, eds, Derrida.
42 Derrida, ‘Shibboleth: For Paul Celan’, tr. by Joshua Wilner, in Arios
Fioretos, ed., Word Traces: Readings of Paul Celan (Baltimore;
London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), pp. 24–5.
43 ‘I had decided at that time to put before you the question of com-
petence, of legitimacy, and of the Joycean institution. Who has a
recognized right to speak of Joyce, to write on Joyce, and who does
this well? What do competence and performance consist of here?’
(‘Hear say yes in Joyce’, in Acts of Literature, p. 279).
44 Interview with Jean Bollack.
45 L’Autre Journal, 22–7 May 1986.
46 Colin Campbell, ‘The tyranny of the Yale critics’, The New York Times
Magazine, 9 February 1986.
47 Interview with J. Hillis Miller. Letter from J. Hillis Miller to Derrida,
26 August 1985.
48 Interview with Samuel Weber.
49 Derrida, ‘Désistance’, in Psyche, vol. 2, p. 201.
50 Letter from Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe to Derrida, 5 November 1986.
51 Interview with Bernard Stiegler. Passer à l’acte, which discusses this
period, was published in 2003 (Paris: Galilée).
52 Letter from Bernard Stiegler to Derrida, 16 December 1982.
53 Interview with Catherine Malabou.
54 Evando Nascimento, ‘Entretien avec Jacques Derrida’, Folha de São
Paulo, 15 August 2004.