“Next to a corpus of which the critic ‘has not retained intact a single fragment’,5 he reintroduces the body, including his own… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
“at the Catholic DePaul University, Michael Naas and Pascale-Anne Brault were faithful translators as well as friends.” — Benoît Peeters Education Copy Share Image
“Marked as it was by the Zeitgeist, Glas can also be read as a reply to Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, which had… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
“As Marguerite Derrida puts it: ‘I’ve always thought that it was mainly through his capacity for listening that Jacques could seduce women.” — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
“Perhaps there were two areas he didn’t go into: clothes, and his relationship with women.” — Benoît Peeters Clothes Copy Share Image
“Your favourite quality in a woman?: Thought. Your favourite virtue?: Faithfulness.” — Benoît Peeters Character Copy Share Image
“Jean, his younger son, remembers a father who was almost always working:” — Benoît Peeters Father Copy Share Image
“The review L’Arc, meanwhile, wished to devote a complete issue to Derrida. Catherine Clément submitted a list of contributors in which there… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
“The time for argument was over: Foucault wanted to crush an enemy, even though he claimed he loathed this kind of attack,… — Benoît Peeters Foucault Copy Share Image
“Even though Spivak’s translation met with some criticism and had to be revised several times, Of Grammatology achieved astronomical sales of nearly… — Benoît Peeters Translation Copy Share Image
“To the Paris apartment, which for him was synonymous with promiscuity, he preferred a house with a garden, in countryside which was… — Benoît Peeters Garden Copy Share Image
“The following day, Sylviane Agacinski commented on this declaration in her journal, which was published a few months later: I read in… — Benoît Peeters Bad mood Copy Share Image
“During the 1980s, he went jogging, something he had picked up during his stays in California, but when he found that the… — Benoît Peeters Jogging Copy Share Image
“In Derrida’s words, Anti-Oedipus was a ‘very bad book (confused, full of contorted disclaimers, etc.) but an important symptomatic event, to judge… — Benoît Peeters Books Copy Share Image
“We did a little yoga together. Sometimes he let me give him a massage. But when I mentioned meditation to him, he… — Benoît Peeters Meditation Copy Share Image
“While Derrida had frequently bumped into him, since their first encounters at the home of Maurice de Gandillac at the beginning of… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
“Sylviane Agacinski, who was a friend of Catherine, was present in the audience. Even though Sylviane was still one of the authors… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
“The plane that had taken off from Baltimore was caught in bad weather, which meant the Derridas missed their connection at Boston.… — Benoît Peeters Bad weather Copy Share Image
“I now have at home, I can freely admit, three computers and two of then also have a zip drive, an extra… — Benoît Peeters Computers Copy Share Image
“Derrida is convinced: the ‘Enlightenment to come’ should take the logic of the unconscious into account. This involves, for example, answering a… — Benoît Peeters Buddhism Copy Share Image
“In the middle of ‘Monicagate’, Bill Clinton himself used deconstruction in his own defence. Accused of lying when he had claimed not… — Benoît Peeters Deconstruction Copy Share Image
“But for some readers, especially Derrida’s closest friends, the allusions to reality at the centre of the ‘Envois’ seemed barely tolerable. Pierre… — Benoît Peeters Books Copy Share Image
“But, in November, the problem of Nanterre raised its head again, now more urgently. One Saturday morning, after an hour’s journey under… — Benoît Peeters Education Copy Share Image
“She then laid more aggressively into her ex-partner and his philosophy, which she felt was disconnected from the reality that she had… — Benoît Peeters Bad mood Copy Share Image
“Admitting that his distance probably contained ‘a sort of crypto-Communist legacy’, Derrida spoke in more detail about his attitude to the student… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
“Avital Ronell – a committed vegetarian – relates that one day, at a dinner with Chantal and René Major, she let one… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
“After dinners in Ris-Orangis, Derrida would gladly offer to drive home any guests without transport. He enjoyed driving, and always went into… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
“When consulted on one of the earliest texts by Alain Badiou, an article on Althusser, Derrida’s reply was both frank and open-minded:… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
“Derrida had not seen the child again, apart from one completely chance encounter. One day, coming out of a plane in an… — Benoît Peeters Children Copy Share Image
“When he read the text for the first time, Alan Bass, who was far from being a novice, had the impression that… — Benoît Peeters Books Copy Share Image
“B.-H. Lévy: I am amazed to see that when somebody (I’ve been given leave to speak, so I will) starts to explain… — Benoît Peeters Philosophy Copy Share Image
“One might even say that he had the last word. Derrida had criticized him for being too Christian. And Nancy replied to… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, the only thing that sometimes annoyed Marguerite was Jacques’s jealous temperament. ‘He wasn’t happy when he couldn’t reach me straightaway.” — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
“I’m going to swim as much as possible. I’m in poor shape physically. I’ve put on weight (as always when I’m tired)… — Benoît Peeters Leadership Copy Share Image
“Between Derrida and women (who had been so often ignored by the Western philosophical tradition), an alliance was soon to be formed.… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
“He had a kind of urgent drive to be forever producing something, to get involved in more and more projects, to leave… — Benoît Peeters Motivation Copy Share Image
“What was difficult to deal with was his permanent anxiety: when we were little, he was afraid we’d go and play outside… — Benoît Peeters Anxiety Copy Share Image
“Derrida had an irresistible desire to seduce. And if he almost never spoke of his relationship to women, this was because his… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
“Just six weeks to wait; then we’ll go out, we’ll go for walks together again, we’ll think and feel together; together we… — Benoît Peeters Friend Copy Share Image
“Derrida was particularly pained to see the story of his relationship with Sylviane exposed in two biographies of Jospin, long extracts from… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
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