As soon as we cease to believe in such an engineer and in a discourse which breaks with the received historical discourse, and as soon as we admit th….

It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nost….

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written..

Why is it apparently the philosopher who is expected to be "easier" and not some scientist or other who is even more inaccessible to the same readers?.

During the fifteen or twenty years in which I tried - it was not always easy with publishers, newspapers, etc. - to forbid photographs, it was not at….

Contrary to what phenomenology- which is always phenomenology of perception- has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to….

I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are ….

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other'….

Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and try….

We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it….

I rightly pass for an atheist..

I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone, ... so that above all t….

An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happe….

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language….

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous..

I was wondering myself where I am going. So I would answer you by saying, first, that I am trying, precisely, to put myself at a point so that I do n….

There is a future which is predictable, programmed, scheduled, foreseeable. But there is a future, l'avenir (to come) which refers to someone who com….

Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. ….

Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution..

These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to ….

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try..