Occupation: Philosopher Birth: July 15, 1930 Death: October 9, 2004
There is nothing outside the text.
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend..
A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance, a system that no longer tolerates the oppositi….
Who ever said that one was born just once?.
Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom..
In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared res….
Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodol….
I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles..
Even if we're in a state of hopelessness, a sense of expectation is an integral part of our relationship to time. Hopelessness is possible only becau….
Beauty only happens once..
The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye..
Beyond the touchline there is nothing..
The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will survive me. It is not an ambition of immortality; ….
The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manip….
I love language as I love life itself!.
Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts..
Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death..
But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event of this text, which otherwise ….
We are all mediators, translators..
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 neverthe….
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction..