Occupation: Philosopher Birth: July 15, 1930 Death: October 9, 2004
Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and decides to ….
The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound..
No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing..
I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner..
There is no rigorous and effective deconstruction without the faithful memory of philosophies and literatures, without the respectful and competent r….
1) Différance is the systematic play of differences, of the traces of differences, of the spacing by means of which elements are related to each othe….
Circumcision , that's all I've ever talked about..
Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write..
As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene..
That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been given t….
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 ….
Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture..
Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the tradition of a certain M….
I’m no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently)..
The end of man (as a factual anthropological limit) is announced to thought from the vantage of the end of man (as a determined opening or the infini….
I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap..
A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remain….
I am like a child ready for the apocalypse, I am the apocalypse itself, that is to say, the ultimate and first event of the end, the unveiling and th….
The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages..
The end approaches, but the apocalypse is long lived..
In a language, in the system of language, there are only differences. Therefore, a taxonomical operation an undertake the systematic, statistical, an….