Time Quote by 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 just experienced:…

— Benoît Peeters

“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

“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

“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 obsession with…

— 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 movement in…

— Benoît Peeters

“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

“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 the 1950s,…

— Benoît Peeters

“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

“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

“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