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          This biography of Jacques Derrida (–) tells the story of a Jewish boy from Algiers, excluded from school at the age of twelve.!

          Benoît Peeters has ransacked the voluminous Derrida archives and interviewed scores of his friends and colleagues.

        1. Peeters decides against writing an intellectual biography containing discussions of Derrida's philosophy or ideas because of the aspects of.
        2. This biography of Jacques Derrida (–) tells the story of a Jewish boy from Algiers, excluded from school at the age of twelve.
        3. This biography of Jacques Derrida (–) tells the story of a Jewish boy from Algiers, excluded from school at the age of twelve, who went on to become.
        4. The Biography Regime: Benoît Peeters, Derrida: A Biography, translated by Andrew Brown (Cambridge, Polity, ), pp; Evelyn Barish, The Double Life of Paul.

          5. Derrida: A Biography

          June 25, 2016
          Exhaustive and sympathetic without being hagiographical

          There is, of course, something deeply ironic, even paradoxical, about writing a biography of Derrida, reconstructing the man from the texts, fragments and traces of narrative written by Derrida himself, and the people who knew him - texts which always have a belated status.

          Peeters, who was himself a postgraduate working under Barthes, is fully aware of this poignant incongruity and tackles it upfront in his introduction.

          What he offers us here is an exhaustive and sympathetic biography of Derrida, the man as well as the philosopher, thinker and writer.

          He is respectful of Derrida's wife and avoids any kind of intrusive voyeurism when it comes to Derrida's relationships with women, while acknowledging the importance of women - as friends, colleagues, fellow intellectuals as well as lovers - in Derrida's life.

          The movements of this book are, primarily, intellectual ones, focusing on the deve