Peeters derrida biography books

Review

Winner of the Choice award for Outstanding Academic Title

'Exhaustive and exhilarating.'
The Scotsman

'Lucid, intelligent and richly informative.'
Times Literary Supplement

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

The result is a marvellously compelling account, lucidly translated by Andrew Brown. The man who emerges from this portrait is an agonised soul with sudden outbreaks of gaiety, an astonishingly original thinker with more than a dash of vanity who nevertheless made himself fully available to the humblest student.'
Terry Eagleton, The Guardian

"Peeters' biography is unique in shaping Jacques Derrida's legacy in a way that a new generation would benefit from knowing."
The Tablet

'Peeters is not a Derridean, but his book has qualities Derrida might have appreciated, above all a supreme patience with intellectual difficulty and abstention f