“The plane that had taken off from Baltimore was caught in bad weather, which meant the Derridas missed their connection at Boston. Derrida found this delay and the whole chaotic journey a real trial. On the flight the following day,… — 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