According to Gilles Deleuze, “the lives of philosophers are rarely interesting.” This may have come as a surprise to Jacques Derrida, who once spent a couple days in jail after cops in the Prague airport tried to frame him for smuggling weed. (This incident gets ample coverage in a new biography of the scholar).
Jacques Derrida, “intellectual terrorist.”
Christopher King, art director at Melville House, has posted a blog entry detailing the illustrative process for the covers of their Last Interview series, which features Roberto Bolano, Kurt Vonnegut, and Jacques Derrida, whom King notes has a “strong, broad face, high cheekbones, and a shifty look in his eyes.”
Source: mhpbooks.com
