Benoît Peeters

“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

“To the Paris apartment, which for him was synonymous with promiscuity, he preferred a house with a garden, in countryside which was…

— Benoît Peeters

“Between Derrida and women (who had been so often ignored by the Western philosophical tradition), an alliance was soon to be formed.…

— Benoît Peeters

“Your favourite quality in a woman?: Thought. Your favourite virtue?: Faithfulness.”

— Benoît Peeters

“Derrida had an irresistible desire to seduce. And if he almost never spoke of his relationship to women, this was because his…

— Benoît Peeters

“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

“I now have at home, I can freely admit, three computers and two of then also have a zip drive, an extra…

— Benoît Peeters

“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

“While Derrida had frequently bumped into him, since their first encounters at the home of Maurice de Gandillac at the beginning of…

— Benoît Peeters

“We did a little yoga together. Sometimes he let me give him a massage. But when I mentioned meditation to him, he…

— Benoît Peeters

“In spite of ups and downs, the union between Jacques and Marguerite remained essential and indestructible. Nothing could undermine it over the…

— Benoît Peeters

“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

“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

“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

“Perhaps there were two areas he didn’t go into: clothes, and his relationship with women.”

— Benoît Peeters

“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

“The following day, Sylviane Agacinski commented on this declaration in her journal, which was published a few months later: I read in…

— Benoît Peeters

“During the 1980s, he went jogging, something he had picked up during his stays in California, but when he found that the…

— Benoît Peeters

“The time for argument was over: Foucault wanted to crush an enemy, even though he claimed he loathed this kind of attack,…

— Benoît Peeters

“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

“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

“Avital Ronell – a committed vegetarian – relates that one day, at a dinner with Chantal and René Major, she let one…

— Benoît Peeters

“One might even say that he had the last word. Derrida had criticized him for being too Christian. And Nancy replied to…

— Benoît Peeters

“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

“Jean, his younger son, remembers a father who was almost always working:”

— Benoît Peeters