Excuse me, but I never said exactly so: Yet Another Derridean Interview

On the Beach (Glebe NSW, Australia), no. 1/1983: p. 42

In 1982, Paul Brennan spoke to Jacques Derrida at the Collège de France. He specified his questions to issues arising out of Derrida's De la grammatologie.

P.B.: How would you respond to the assertion that you are trying to set up a kind of literary science?

J.D.: It's not really a science in the traditional sense. It's strategy for interpreting sciences, and philosophy also... to deconstruct them, to look at them from many points of view (but of course also from a political point of view) and to show the implicit limits of sciences. For instance, language sciences are the dominant models of science on the French scene.

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Derrida Interview with Robert Maggiori

appeared in:
Le more cahier livres de Libération, Jeudi, 24 novembre 1994, pp. I-III

Translated by Hans-Peter Jaeck

Q: After year Spectres de Marx you publish at the same time with Politiques de l'amitié a still much more political text: Force de loi (dt.: legal power, 1991). called is that, you wants for the rumor an end to prepare, whereafter the Dekonstruktion before questions of the ethics, the social one and the policy resigns as it were nihilistically?

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Cardozo Law School interview: An Interview with Jacques Derrida

Famed philosopher and deconstructionist Jacques Derrida is a professor at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Socials in Paris and has visited Cardozo regularly for the past 10 years. He holds the title of Cardozo Distinguished Scholar and often lectures at the Law School as part of the Law & Humanism Speakers Series, which is co-sponsored with the New School University. When Professor Derrida visited in October, Michel Rosenfeld, Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights, talked with him about his relationship to law and his thoughts on current international political events.

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Jacques Derrida: The Sacrifice

Editions of the Difference
National theatre Lille Tourcoing Area North-Not of Calais

This text is the transcription of an intervention made by Jacques Derrida on October 20, 1991 with (the Metaphor) during a meeting entitled: The unstageable one, the secrecy, the night, the foreclosed one. It is published jointly by the review Lieux extremes.

Philosophy and the theatre are dependent in a turbulent affinity and insistente: don't these two experiments privilege a certain authority of the presence and visibility? Authority of the glance, authority of optics, authority of eidetic, the theôrein, the theoretic one. This privilège of the theory which one associates régulièrement, wrongly or rightly, philosophy, it is to see it, contemplate it, look at it. From the Platonic eidos to the object or modern objectivity, philosophy can be read - not only but easily - as a history of the visibility, interpretation of the visible one. Here is thus a destiny that philosophy divides since its origin, in a conflict way sometimes très, with arts of visible and with a certain theatre.

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