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 --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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