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The Politiques de l'amitié: Derrida's Greeks and a national politics of classical scholarship*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2013

Miriam Leonard
Miriam Leonard
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Newnham College, Cambridge
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[L]es travaux considérés partagent, entre autre choses, ce que faute de mieux j'appellerai un ‘rapport’ à la ‘chose grecque’, qu‘à cet égard certains d'entre ‘nous’ puissent dire ‘nous’, ‘nous et les Grecs’ […] Il doit bien y avoir des raisons, je veux dires des causes de toute sorte (et non seulement dans l'ordre du discours philosophique, aussi dans ce qu'on appelle – et je me sers à dessein de ces mots conventionnels – la société, l'histoire, la politique, la macro- et la micro- économie des passions et des désirs), pour rendre compte de ce fait: à tel moment, dans un pays donné, un certain nombre de philosophes qui appartiennent à peu près à la même génération, à des institutions très voisines, en gros à la même, et qui publient à peu près en même temps, disent des choses qui se ressemblent.

(Jacques Derrida ‘Nous Autres Grecs’)

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Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society (Second Series) , Volume 46 , 2001 , pp. 45 - 78
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