““When consulted on one of the earliest texts by Alain Badiou, an article on Althusser, Derrida’s reply was both frank and open-minded: I’ve just read Badiou’s text. Like you yourself and Barthes, I find it at least irritating in its tone, the author’s pomposity, the ‘marks’ he hands out to everyone as if it were prize-giving or the Last Judgment. I still think that it’s important. [. . .] I don’t think there’s any doubt of this, and am all the more prepared to grant it this importance because I am far from feeling ‘philosophically’ ready to follow him in his arguments or his conclusions.5””
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