Peter Salmon

Writer, UK

Peter Salmon is an Australian writer living in the UK. He is the author of An Event Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida (2020), and his writing has appeared in the TLS, the New Humanist, the Sydney Review of Books and The Guardian, among others.

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Paper trails

Husserl’s well-tended archive has given him a rich afterlife, while Nietzsche’s was distorted by his axe-grinding sister

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A philosophy of secrets

Jacques Derrida was fascinated by the figure of the Marrano Jew, whose identity could barely be told even to themselves

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Since Derrida

A golden generation of French philosophers dismantled truth and other traditional ideas. What next for their successors?

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