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

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“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: In any case, philosophy too can put you in a bad mood: the Derridean concept of ‘unconditional hospitality’, for example. It is not merely absurd (though this still needs to be said), it is provocative. While…

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“To the Paris apartment, which for him was synonymous with promiscuity, he preferred a house with a garden, in countryside which was not really…

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

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

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“Derrida had an irresistible desire to seduce. And if he almost never spoke of his relationship to women, this was because his obsession with secrecy was greater in this area than in any other. But many people knew that ‘the feminine’ was, for him, always in the plural. If Derrida vaunted faithfulness in his reply to the Proust questionnaire, this…

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“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 his interview with Maurizio Ferraris: I did not say no to ‘68’, I took part in the demonstrations, I organized the first general assembly at the École Normale. Still, rightly or wrongly, my heart was not…

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“I now have at home, I can freely admit, three computers and two of then also have a zip drive, an extra hard disk [. . .] and when I write a long text that’s hanging around without being printed out, I never leave the house without making copies of the text in question [. . .]. There are at…

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“As Marguerite Derrida puts it: ‘I’ve always thought that it was mainly through his capacity for listening that Jacques could seduce women.”

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“While Derrida had frequently bumped into him, since their first encounters at the home of Maurice de Gandillac at the beginning of the 1950s, he had not really got to know him. Jean-Luc Nancy had dreamed of getting these two major philosophers into a discussion, but it never happened, and not just for contingent reasons.”

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

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“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 of their life together. According to Avital Ronell, ‘Marguerite never considered anyone to be a rival. She always had something nice to say about the women who were close or too close to Jacques, which does…

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“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 Derrida.”

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