Not in the Mood
Adam Shatz: Derrida’s Secrets, 22 November 2012
Derrida: A Biography
by Benoît Peeters, translated by Andrew Brown.
Polity, 629 pp., £25, November 2012,978 0 7456 5615 1 Show More
by Benoît Peeters, translated by Andrew Brown.
Polity, 629 pp., £25, November 2012,
“... a ‘precious but so vulnerable intruder’, since he was born after the death of an older son, Paul, at three months. His mother, Georgette, whom he adored, insisted on finishing a poker game when she went into labour with him (she was to remain sparing with her affection). But the event that established Derrida’s sense of being an outsider – the first ... ”