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.
Written by Peter Salmon
essay
Thinkers and theories
Paper trails
Husserl’s well-tended archive has given him a rich afterlife, while Nietzsche’s was distorted by his axe-grinding sister
Peter Salmon
essay
Thinkers and theories
A philosophy of secrets
Jacques Derrida was fascinated by the figure of the Marrano Jew, whose identity could barely be told even to themselves
Peter Salmon
essay
Thinkers and theories
Since Derrida
A golden generation of French philosophers dismantled truth and other traditional ideas. What next for their successors?
Peter Salmon