French - Philosopher | July 15, 1930 - October 8, 2004
Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.
Jacques Derrida
LifeChanceCircleBirthOpenSign
The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.
WhyMoreWhoEvenEasierExpected
Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?
CultureWayEverythingArranged
Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.
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As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.
MeInstitutionRecognizeReaders
Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.
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I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.
LifePoetryReadingBadYoungKind
I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.
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If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.
I AmBelieveNameToo MuchAlive
My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.
TimeExperienceSickEdgeParisUp
The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
PoliticalProblemMediaFirstGet
The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.
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