Saturday 5 March 2011

“No doubt I hesitated between philosophy and literature, giving up neither, perhaps seeking obscurely a place from which the history of this frontier could be thought or even displaced…”
-Jacques Derrida, “This Strange Institution Called Literature”

“My ‘first’ inclination wasn’t really toward philosophy, but rather towards literature, no towards something that literature accommodates more easily than philosophy.”

-Jacques Derrida, “An Interview with Derrida