“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
“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
“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
“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
“The following day, Sylviane Agacinski commented on this declaration in her journal, which was published a few months later: I read in… — Benoît Peeters 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 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
“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
“The plane that had taken off from Baltimore was caught in bad weather, which meant the Derridas missed their connection at Boston.… — Benoît Peeters 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 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“Derrida had not seen the child again, apart from one completely chance encounter. One day, coming out of a plane in an… — Benoît Peeters 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 just experienced:… — Benoît Peeters 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 not really… — Benoît Peeters 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. A personal… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
“Your favourite quality in a woman?: Thought. Your favourite virtue?: Faithfulness.” — Benoît Peeters 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 obsession with… — Benoît Peeters 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 movement in… — Benoît Peeters 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 hard disk… — 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
“While Derrida had frequently bumped into him, since their first encounters at the home of Maurice de Gandillac at the beginning of the 1950s,… — Benoît Peeters 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 said that… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
“In spite of ups and downs, the union between Jacques and Marguerite remained essential and indestructible. Nothing could undermine it over the forty-eight years… — Benoît Peeters 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 so irritated… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image