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This biography of Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) tells the story of a Jewish boy from Algiers, excluded from school at the age of twelve, who went on to become the most widely translated French philosopher in the world – a vulnerable, tormented man who, throughout his life, continued to see himself as unwelcome in the French university system. We are plunged into the different worlds in which Derrida lived and worked: pre-independence Algeria, the microcosm of the École Normale Supérieure, the cluster of structuralist thinkers, and the turbulent events of 1968 and after. We meet the remarkable series of leading writers and philosophers with whom Derrida struck up a friendship: Louis Althusser, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean Genet, and Hélène Cixous, among others. We also witness an equally long series of often brutal polemics fought over crucial issues with thinkers such as Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, John R. Searle, and Jürgen Habermas, as well as several controversies that went far beyond academia, the best known of which concerned Heidegger and Paul de Man. We follow a series of courageous political commitments in support of Nelson Mandela, illegal immigrants, and gay marriage. And we watch as a concept – deconstruction – takes wing and exerts an extraordinary influence way beyond the philosophical world, on literary studies, architecture, law, theology, feminism, queer theory, and postcolonial studies.
In writing this compelling and authoritative biography, Benoît Peeters talked to over a hundred individuals who knew and worked with Derrida. He is also the first person to make use of the huge personal archive built up by Derrida throughout his life and of his extensive correspondence. Peeters’ book gives us a new and deeper understanding of the man who will perhaps be seen as the major philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century.
- Sales Rank: #511570 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Polity
- Published on: 2012-10-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.35" h x 2.10" w x 6.30" l, 2.50 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 700 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
Winner of the Choice award for Outstanding Academic Title
'Exhaustive and exhilarating.'
The Scotsman
'Lucid, intelligent and richly informative.'
Times Literary Supplement
'Peeters has ransacked the voluminous Derrida archives and interviewed scores of his friends and colleagues. The result is a marvellously compelling account, lucidly translated by Andrew Brown. The man who emerges from this portrait is an agonised soul with sudden outbreaks of gaiety, an astonishingly original thinker with more than a dash of vanity who nevertheless made himself fully available to the humblest student.'
Terry Eagleton, The Guardian
"Peeters' biography is unique in shaping Jacques Derrida's legacy in a way that a new generation would benefit from knowing."
The Tablet
'Peeters is not a Derridean, but his book has qualities Derrida might have appreciated, above all a supreme patience with intellectual difficulty and abstention from moral judgement. He has done a heroic amount of research, interviewing more than a hundred of Derrida's friends and associates. He also had the co-operation of Derrida's widow, Marguerite. But his principal source of information is Derrida's own writing ... Derrida saved everything he wrote: he regarded every scrap as a 'trace', an almost sacred emblem of survival - and all writing, from poetry to post-its, had philosophical implications. Peeters puts Derrida's professional writing and these traces on an equal footing, using the one to illuminate the other. We see his many sides: a loyal friend and irrepressible seducer; a critic of dogma who couldn't bring himself to admit his own errors; a man who loathed tribalism but was so thin-skinned and so in need of adoration that he ended up leading his own academic tribe.'
London Review of Books
'Peeters has cut through a lot of the myth and mystique surrounding Derrida. There is probably more illuminating information here - and correspondence - than has ever been made public before ... Peeters's Derrida is vulnerable, sensitive, prone to bouts of melancholia, neurotic, hypochondriac, and verging on suicidal. He is as tormented and torn as his prose. This is Derrida the poetic soul.'
Literary Review
'Peeters' poignant Derrida: A Biograghy is - evidently - not an autobiography, yet it is a piece of writing that draws upon Derrida's own auto-biographies; on a life of work that depicts the life as work, as a work in progress, of a life in writing as writing (not to mention Peeters' unprecedented access to Derrida's personal letters and other writings) ... Indeed, the complex relationship between literature and philosophy, for Derrida, is a recurrent theme in the biography, and the struggle between the two, in Derrida's adolescence (which, as he states, "lasted until I was thirty-two"), makes for fascinating reading.'
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‘In addressing a philosopher of the importance of Jacques Derrida, whose massive output – about 60 volumes, not including his as yet unpublished seminars – has been translated and debated the world over, Benoît Peeters has quite rightly chosen not the origins or content of the work itself, but the life of the man behind it. In short, he has written an excellent biography entirely in keeping with Anglo-Saxon traditions.’
Elisabeth Roudinesco, The Guardian
'Peeters’ biography humanizes the philosopher in a way that opens up his work in a new way, and most importantly, makes it accessible.'
Philosophy After Dark
'[Peeters] excels at evoking the huge energy and application of the world's most travelled philosopher. If you've ever given up on Derrida, this portrait of him as a lovable, thin-skinned and narcissistic outside in France who shot to fame in the United States should make you reconsider.'
New Statesman
'A real tour de force. Assimilating a vast amount of material – Derrida’s own voluminous publications, unpublished documents and correspondence, and conversations with a host of acquaintances – Benoît Peeters has produced a compelling narrative that sheds light on all aspects of Derrida’s remarkable career.'
Jonathan Culler, Cornell University
About the Author
Benoît Peeters was born in Paris in 1956. Following a degree in Philosophy at the Sorbonne (Paris I), he went on to study for his Masters at the École Pratique des Hautes Études under the direction of Roland Barthes. He has since published over forty works on a wide variety of subjects and has written essays and biographies on Hergé, Alfred Hitchcock, and Paul Valéry.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Derrida: The Life and Times
By Richard A. Ellis
Benoit Peeters' biography of Jacques Derrida was very well received when it was published in France in 2010, and it now appears here in a competent translation by Andrew Brown. The favorable reviews were justified, in my view, as this is an engrossing nuts-and-bolts overview of Derrida. Anyone expecting a so-called "intellectual biography" will be disappointed, as Peeters explicitly disavows this approach, which would exclude much of the "life and times" of traditional biography. Instead, we have an old-fashioned chronological life, who did what and when, without much analysis of Derrida's works or with any attempt to replicate Derrida's style. This is a good choice, as Derrida's work is so vast (60 volumes and counting) and disparate that an attempt to deal with it in an overview would be extremely lengthy. Some American readers, I suspect, will criticize Peeters for his focus on the internecene squabbles and feuds Derrida became involved in from the time he became well-known in the 1960s, but actually I found this interesting and informative. What critical judgments Peeters does provide are well-justified, for instance stressing the centrality of "Speech and Phenomena" to understanding Derrida. On the negative side, the translation seems to become a little "rougher" after about page 400 or so, but I'm not sure this is the fault of the editors or the translator. A few minor errors creep in (e.g., "University of Irvine", "University of Villanova", the Searle-Derrida exchange is described as "violent") but in a 600-page book, these are minimal. The best parts, in my view, were the overview of Derrida at 60, focusing on his daily life, and the moving final section. Here we see Derrida, knowing he was approaching death soon (pancreatic cancer) patiently correcting student essays far into the night. One would be hard-pressed to think of a person of similar stature having this care and concern. Peeters has done some incredible research into the Derrida archives, no mean feat, as he never threw anything away, from his student essays on.
Overall, if one wants a traditional biography of Derrida, this is the place to go. I have a shelf (or two!) where since the 1970s, Derrida's works and critical studies on the works have been accumulating, without my making much progress beyond reading a handful and half-reading some of the others. Reading Peeters has inspired me to make a new attempt, as he makes clear, if we didn't already know it, that this is one of the main thinkers of the 20th Century.
16 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
Prophets in Peacetime: The Curse of Pettiness
By Michael H. Shenkman
I recommend this book. Let nothing I say discourage a curious reader in that regard. It flows, maybe too easily; it is informative, maybe too much in some ways; and it quotations are many and lend an immediacy to the narrative, again, maybe too close to the event. All told, it is a solid, readable, journalistic style accounting of Derrida's comings and goings. I thoroughly enjoyed the time spent with this book.
So, my reservations are more a matter of the nature of the musings this book engendered: I wondered less about the life of a great and pathbreaking thinker, and more about what an "intellectual biography" (which this is not) entails. As a non-professional philosopher who has spent a lot of time reading and studying Derrida, and some great commentators on his work (see: John D. Caputo: The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida), I did not feel that I was placed in closer proximity to the "mind" that offered, not only deconstruction (which Peeters focuses on), but also the promise, the "yes, yes," the post-Judaic, post-Benjaminian "messianism." I did not get a sense of a man, not only of the "left," but also the man who has crossed over, out of positivistic nihilism, into a non-ubermenschian openness (the first yes) to what comes (the second yes). I wanted to feel closer to that man, but this book did not offer that.
Instead, we get the tale of university-agonisties, of petty academic rivalries, of the usual affair gone bad, while the heroic marriage endures. Really -- you could have plugged in any number of names, besides Derrida, into this book and it would be virtually the same story. Petty academics, protecting their posts and positions refuse admittance to the club of the outsider. And, happily, for this intrepid wanderer there are also splendid friends (I was so glad to hear that Jean-Luc Nancy and Derrida were friends -- I also love Nancy's work).
So, what do we want from an "intellectual biography" (which this is not), or a biography about an intellectual (which this is)? For as autobiographical a writer as Derrida was (e.g. "Circumfessions") would a deeper probing into the workings of the post-NIetzschean man not be possible? Again, Caputo has ventured there, but not "biographically." In an interview with Derek Attridge in 1989 (in "Acts of Literature," p. 43) Derrida says, "In a minimal autobiographical trait can be gtathered the greatest potentiality of historical, theoretical, linguistic, philosophical culture -- that's really what interests me." Moi aussi.
So, no complaints. Just wondering.
By the way -- to the Amazon Inquisitors -- I am not a relative of Peeters, I am not a fan, I do not know him, I have no interest in the "success" of this book. That's just to spare you whatever labor you are expending in this endeavor of purification of yours. Maybe a lesson in "deconstruction" might be of value in Amazon's executive ranks.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Splendid biography of Jacques Derrida
By Steven Peterson
Born Jackie Derrida in Algeria, he changed his name to Jacques after beginning his academic career. The book traces his early years, including facing challenges as a Jew in French Algeria during World War II. The challenge of any book on Derrida is to provide a sense of both the person and his ideas. And Derrida's ideas are not always easy to grasp. Indeed, Michel Foucault once referred to Derrida as "obscurante terroriste." That is, Derrida's work was obscurely written--and when one missed what Derrida meant, he would attack said individual. Hence, obscure terrorist.
Derrida's youth and early academic training were characterized by bouts of depression and anxiety. He had some reverses in his academic career, but overcame them.
He began to write as his academic career began. The book discusses his friendships--and his conflicts with others. And sometimes both: He and Jurgen Habermas were notoriously scathing toward one another's work, until they developed a modus vivendi in later life. The conflicts between Foucault and Derrida are depicted, too. Just so, his friendships with scholars such as J. Hillis Miller and Paul De Man are chronicled. We learn of his family life and of his complex personal life.
Then, of course, there is his work. His concept of "differance" is pretty accessibly presented. Lay readers will have a good sense of the importance of the idea. Deconstruction? The notion is first presented and is not so easy to get a handle on, although by repeated discussion over the course of the book, readers should "get it." Indeed, one of the greatest challenges with this book is trying to get a sense of Derrida's works. And he was very prolific, authoring many books, publications, and lectures.
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