Excerpts from

The Deconstruction of Actuality

An Interview with Jacques Derrida

This interview, conducted in Paris in August 1993 to mark the publication of Derrida's Spectres de Marx (Paris, Galilée, 1993), was first published in the monthly review Passages in September 1994. You find the entire text of the interview in its English translation in the journal Radical Philosophy no. 68 (autumn) 1994, 28-41.

[The citation of two questions and answers from the English translation of this interview has been removed from this site at the behest of Radical Philosophy. The excerpt may or may not be available again in the future. Meanwhile, please visit the site of the Oxford Literary Review online.