Contents

Acknowledgments

Translators’ Introduction

PART I.

Introduction

1First Crossings of the Rhine

2The Sartre Bomb

3Postwar Fascinations

4Humanism in Turmoil

5The Bright Spell of the ’50s

6Renewed Polemics, New Shifts

7Dissemination or Reconstruction?

8Death and Transfiguration?

9The Letter and the Spirit

10The Return of the Repressed?

11Between Erudite Scholarship and Techno-Science

12At the Crossroads

Conclusion

PART II. INTERVIEWS

Françoise Dastur: Interview of March 3, 2000

Jacques Derrida: Interviews of July 1 and November 22, 1999

Éliane Escoubas: Interview of October 19, 2000

Jean Greisch: Interview of December 2, 1999

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe: Interview of June 22, 2000

Jean-Luc Marion: Interview of December 3, 1999

Jean-Luc Nancy: Interview of June 23, 2000

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index