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Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 09:06:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Louis N Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: M-I: Derrida Gossip


Our Little Secret has been laboring through the summer months to penetrate
the murky prose and thought processes of Jacques Derrida, most
particularly his newly translated Politics of Friendship. Amid our efforts
there came some news about the Pomo hero's own application of what his
British publisher isolates as the prime theme of the Politics of
Friendship, "an anti-genealogy, upsetting the genealogical motive itself:
the order of filiation and preference, the familial and phallocentric
schema of fraternity, and the virility of virtue whose authority has
traditionally gone unquestioned in our culture of friendship and our
models of democracy."

Quite so. Derrida raised the anti-genealogical standard when his
girl-friend, Sylviane Agasinski came to him with the news that she was
pregnant. Derrida immediately terminated the relationship. Agasinski, who
writes on philosophy and photography, gave birth to a bouncing boy, and
formed an ongoing relationship with Lionel Jospin, now the socialist prime
minister of France.

(From the July 1-15 issue of Counterpunch, a newsletter co-edited by Alex
Cockburn and Ken Silverstein. Subscriptions are $40 per year.
Counterpunch, PO Box 18675, Washington, DC 20036)

Louis Proyect





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