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As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

~Jacques Derrida

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I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

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

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If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

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The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

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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 moderate.

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Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

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

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I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned.

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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 hooligan.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: July 15th, 1930

Died: October 8th, 2004

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