Notes to pp. 464–470 585
6 Letter from Derrida to Gérard Granel, 4 February 1971.
7 Derrida, Specters of Marx, p. 85.
8 Letter from Derrida to Françoise Dastur, 20 August 1993: ‘Wir
sterben um zu leben’ is a quotation from Hölderlin in Hyperion, a work
mentioned by Dastur in the letter she had sent Derrida.
9 Le Nouvel Observateur, 21 October 1993.
10 Libération, 4 November 1993.
11 Le Monde, 3 December 1993.
12 Sud-Ouest Dimanche, 7 November 1993.
13 Letter from Derrida to Arnaud Spire, 14 November 1993.
14 Derrida’s close links with L’Humanité lasted for the whole of the fol-
lowing decade. In particular, Derrida published in it a very fi ne text,
‘Mes “humanités” du dimanche’, expressing his best wishes for the
new version of the daily paper (L’Humanité, 4 March 1999). Like most
of his interventions in this period, the article was reprinted in Paper
Machine (‘My Sunday “humanities” ’, pp. 100–8).
15 Pierre Macherey, ‘Le Marx intempestif de Derrida’, in Crépon and
Worms, eds, Derrida: la tradition de la philosophie, pp. 135–6.
16 Sprinker, ed., Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques
Derrida’s ‘Specters of Marx’ (London: Verso, 1999).
17 Derrida, ‘Marx & Sons’, in ibid., p. 222. The text was written in 1998
and the English version came out the following year.
18 Derrida, ‘ “Dead man running”: Salut, salut’, p. 282.
19 Published in Le Monde on 13 July 1993, this appeal was reprinted and
discussed in Maurice Olender, Race sans histoire (Paris: Le Seuil, coll.
‘Points’, 2009), pp. 244–8.
20 This polemic became a fully fl edged ‘aff air’ after the publication of
an open letter from Maurice Blanchot to Bruno Roy in La Quinzaine
littéraire no. 703, 1–15 November 1996, p. 5. For further details, see
Bident, Maurice Blanchot, p. 573. In July 1995, at the conference in
Louvain-la-Neuve, ‘Passions of Literature’, Derrida discussed The
Instant of My Death, quoting the entire text within his own paper.
Blanchot thanked him warmly for this when Derrida published his
book Athens, Still Remains: ‘How grateful I am to you for saving, with
your peerless commentary, my last book from the hateful publisher
whom I have left and condemned, as you probably know’ (letter from
Blanchot to Derrida, 15 January 1998).
21 Derrida, ‘Parti pris pour l’Algérie’. This text was published in Les
Temps modernes no. 580, January–February 1995; it was later reprinted
in Papier Machine (Paris: Galilée, 2001), p. 222. [This is not in the
English edition. – Tr.]
22 Ibid., pp. 224–5.
23 Meeting on 16 May 2001 with Étienne Balibar and Thierry Briault,
published in Philosophie, philosophie no. 9, a review of the philosophy
students at the University of Paris VIII Vincennes at Saint-Denis, 2007.
24 Speech given at Nantes, 25 March 1995, IMEC archives.
25 ‘Manquements – du droit à la justice (mais que manque-t-il donc aux
sans-papiers?)’, improvised intervention of 21 December 1996 at the
Théâtre des Amandiers, in Jacques Derrida and Marc Guillaume,
Marx en jeu (Paris: Descartes et Cie, 1997), pp. 73–91.