Jacques Derrida

"If ,­ there is a tendency in all Western democracies no longer to respect the professional politician or even the party member as such, it is no longer only because of some personal insufficiency, som…"

"A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its law and its…"

"This book, admirable in so many respects, power in its break and style, is even more intimidating for me in that, having formely had the good fortune to study under Michel Foucault, I retain the consc…"

"It has no sense and cannot just unless it comes to terms with death.Mine as that of the other. Between life and death, then, this is indeed the place of a sententious injunction that always feigns to …"

"There is no Animal in the general singular, separated from man by a single, indivisible limit. We have to envisage the existence of “living creatures,” whose plurality cannot be assembled within the s…"

"I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts."

"The disciple must break the glass, or better the mirror, the reflection, his infinite speculation on the master. And start to speak."

"Oh. Marx's love for Shakespeare! It is well known. Chris Hani shared the same passion. I have just learned this and I like the idea. Even though Marx more often quotes Timon of Athens, the Manifesto s…"