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“... that they can at times come to seem a double act. In Seeing Double: Baudelaire’s Modernity, Françoise Meltzer goes so far as to present Baudelaire’s writing as in crucial ways incomplete without Benjamin’s interpretations of it. Her argument is an attempt to push one stage further a complex metaphor used by Benjamin in a fragment not published ...”

“... heard had made no sense to him. ‘Though he’s obviously clever.’Derrida III was introduced by Françoise Meltzer, a tri-lingual ‘comparatist’ who said that the reading of Derrida’s Dissemination in 1973 changed her intellectual life and reminded her of another revolutionary book she was then reading, Kant’s first Critique. In his kindly ...”