Editing Jacques Derrida (section)

==Influences on Derrida==
Crucial readings in his adolescence were [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau|Rousseau]]'s ''[[Reveries of a Solitary Walker]]'' and ''[[Confessions (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)|Confessions]]'', [[André Gide]]'s journal, ''[[La porte étroite]]'', ''[[Les nourritures terrestres]]'' and ''[[The Immoralist]]'';<ref name="TeenBooks"/> and the works of [[Friedrich Nietzsche]].<ref name="TeenBooks">Derrida (1989) ''This Strange Institution Called Literature'', pp. 35, 38–9.</ref> The phrase ''Families, I hate you!'' in particular, which inspired Derrida as an adolescent, is a famous verse from Gide's ''Les nourritures terrestres'', book IV.<ref>Gide's ''Les nourritures terrestres'', book IV: «Familles, je vous hais! Foyers clos; portes refermées; possessions jalouses du bonheur.»</ref> In a 1991 interview Derrida commented on a similar verse, also from book IV of the same Gide work: "I hated the homes, the families, all the places where man thinks he'll find rest" (''Je haïssais les foyers, les familles, tous lieux où l'homme pense trouver un repos'').<ref>{{cite book |chapter=1991 Interview with [[Francois Ewald]] ''Wahn muß übers Denken wachen'' |translator=Werner Kolk |title=Literataz |year=1992 |pages=1–2 |language=German}} Quoted in {{cite journal |last=Gunn |first=Olivia |date=2007 |title=" Je ne suis pas de la famille " : Queerness as Exception in Gide's L 'immoraliste and Genet's Journal du Voleur |journal=Paroles gelées |issn=1094-7264 |volume=23 |issue=1 |doi=10.5070/PG7231003173 |url=https://escholarship.org/content/qt3891m6db/qt3891m6db.pdf?t=krnr1b |via=eScholarship, California Digital Library}}</ref>

Other influences upon Derrida are [[Martin Heidegger]],<ref name="67RonseP8"/><ref name="LetterJap"/> [[Plato]], [[Søren Kierkegaard]], [[Alexandre Kojève]], [[Maurice Blanchot]], [[Antonin Artaud]], [[Roland Barthes]], [[Georges Bataille]], [[Edmund Husserl]], [[Emmanuel Lévinas]], [[Ferdinand de Saussure]], [[Sigmund Freud]], [[Karl Marx]], [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]], [[James Joyce]], [[Samuel Beckett]], [[J. L. Austin]]<ref name="Afterword88P130">Derrida (1988) ''Afterword'', pp. 130–31.</ref> and [[Stéphane Mallarmé]].<ref>{{Cite book |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fPYL_NP-wskC&q=derrida%20and%20St%C3%A9phane%20Mallarm%C3%A9.&pg=PA217 |title=Stéphane Mallarmé |last=Pearson |first=Roger |date=15 May 2010 |publisher=Reaktion Books |isbn=9781861897275 |pages=217}}</ref>

His book, ''Adieu à Emmanuel Lévinas'', reveals his mentorship by this philosopher and Talmudic scholar who practiced the phenomenological encounter with the Other in the form of the [[Face-to-face (philosophy)|Face]], which commanded human response.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Silverman |first=Hugh |date=Spring 2007 |title=Tracing Responsibility: Levinas between Merleau-Ponty and Derrida|journal=Journal of French Philosophy |volume=17 |pages=88–89 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/49244472 |via=ResearchGate}}</ref> The use of deconstruction to read Jewish texts – like the [[Talmud]] – is relatively rare but has recently been attempted.<ref>Dal Bo (2019).</ref>