A Biography
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Köp båda 2 för 564 krWinner of the Choice award for Outstanding Academic Title 'Exhaustive and exhilarating.' The Scotsman 'Lucid, intelligent and richly informative.' Times Literary Supplement 'Peeters has ransacked the voluminous Derrida archives and interviewed scores of his friends and colleagues. The result is a marvellously compelling account, lucidly translated by Andrew Brown. The man who emerges from this portrait is an agonised soul with sudden outbreaks of gaiety, an astonishingly original thinker with more than a dash of vanity who nevertheless made himself fully available to the humblest student.' Terry Eagleton, The Guardian "Peeters' biography is unique in shaping Jacques Derrida's legacy in a way that a new generation would benefit from knowing." The Tablet 'Peeters is not a Derridean, but his book has qualities Derrida might have appreciated, above all a supreme patience with intellectual difficulty and abstention from moral judgement. He has done a heroic amount of research, interviewing more than a hundred of Derrida's friends and associates. He also had the co-operation of Derrida's widow, Marguerite. But his principal source of information is Derrida's own writing ... Derrida saved everything he wrote: he regarded every scrap as a 'trace', an almost sacred emblem of survival - and all writing, from poetry to post-its, had philosophical implications. Peeters puts Derrida's professional writing and these traces on an equal footing, using the one to illuminate the other. We see his many sides: a loyal friend and irrepressible seducer; a critic of dogma who couldn't bring himself to admit his own errors; a man who loathed tribalism but was so thin-skinned and so in need of adoration that he ended up leading his own academic tribe.' London Review of Books 'Peeters has cut through a lot of the myth and mystique surrounding Derrida. There is probably more illuminating information here - and correspondence - than has ever been made public before ... Peeters's Derrida is vulnerable, sensitive, prone to bouts of melancholia, neurotic, hypochondriac, and verging on suicidal. He is as tormented and torn as his prose. This is Derrida the poetic soul.' Literary Review 'Peeters' poignant Derrida: A Biograghy is - evidently - not an autobiography, yet it is a piece of writing that draws upon Derrida's own auto-biographies; on a life of work that depicts the life as work, as a work in progress, of a life in writing as writing (not to mention Peeters' unprecedented access to Derrida's personal letters and other writings) ... Indeed, the complex relationship between literature and philosophy, for Derrida, is a recurrent theme in the biography, and the struggle between the two, in Derrida's adolescence (which, as he states, "lasted until I was thirty-two"), makes for fascinating reading.' Review 31 In addressing a philosopher of the importance of Jacques Derrida, whose massive output about 60 volumes, not including his as yet unpublished seminars has been translated and debated the world over, Benot Peeters has quite rightly chosen not the origins or content of the work itself, but the life of the man behind it. In short, he has written an excellent biography entirely in keeping with Anglo-Saxon traditions. Elisabeth Roudinesco, The Guardian 'Peeters biography humanizes the philosopher in a way that opens up his work in a new way, and most importantly, makes it accessible.' Philosophy After Dark '[Peeters] excels at evoking the huge energy and application of the world's most travelled philosopher. If you've ever given up on Derrida, this portrait of him as a lovable, thin-skinned and narcissistic outside in France who shot to fame in the United States should make you reconsider.' New Statesman 'A re
Benot Peeters was born in Paris in 1956. Following a degree in Philosophy at the Sorbonne (Paris I), he went on to study for his Masters at the cole Pratique des Hautes tudes under the direction of Roland Barthes. He has since published over forty works on a wide variety of subjects and has written essays and biographies on Herg, Alfred Hitchcock, and Paul Valry.
Acknowledgements vii Introduction 1 PART I JACKIE 19301962 1 The Negus 19301942 9 2 Under the Sun of Algiers 19421949 19 3 The Walls of Louis-le-Grand 19491952 35 4 The cole Normale Suprieure 19521956 59 5 A Year in America 19561957 80 6 The Soldier of Kola 19571959 92 7 Melancholia in Le Mans 19591960 108 8 Towards Independence 19601962 113 PART II DERRIDA 19631983 1 From Husserl to Artaud 19631964 127 2 In the Shadow of Althusser 19631966 144 3 Writing Itself 19651966 155 4 A Lucky Year 1967 170 5 A Period of Withdrawal 1968 186 6 Uncomfortable Positions 19691971 207 7 Severed Ties 19721973 230 8 Glas 19731975 256 9 In Support of Philosophy 19731976 267 10 Another Life 19761977 288 11 From the Nouveaux Philosophes to the Estates General 19771979 298 12 Postcards and Proofs 19791981 308 13 Night in Prague 19811982 332 14 A New Hand of Cards 19821983 342 PART III JACQUES DERRIDA 19842004 1 The Territories of Deconstruction 19841986 355 2 From the Heidegger Aff air to the de Man Aff air 19871988 379 3 Living Memory 19881990 402 4 Portrait of the Philosopher at Sixty 417 5 At the Frontiers of the Institution 19911992 440 6 Of Deconstruction in America 451 7 Specters of Marx 19931995 462 8 The Derrida International 19961999 478 9 The Time of Dialogue 20002002 495 10 In Life and in Death 20032004 518 Notes 543 Sources 593 Bibliography 596 Index 605