Discovered in François Laruelle's archives shortly before his passing, this 2006 text sharpens the reading of deconstruction begun in Machines textuelles: Déconstruction et libido d’écriture (1976), a work which deeply impressed Derrida and featured one of the first instances of what came to be called ‘non-philosophy’. ‘Derrida, Mediator’ interprets Derrida and deconstruction as mediations between the Greek philosophical tradition and the Judaic tradition as represented by Levinas. Laruelle defends Derrida from those who interpret deconstruction as texualist sophistry (the Nietzschean Foucault, the Spinozist Deleuze, the Platonist Badiou), as well as from those who seek to affirm the infinite against deconstruction's alleged emphasis on finitude. Contemporaneous with works such as Future Christ (2010) and Mystique non-philosophique à l’usage des contemporains (2007), however, ‘Derrida, Mediator’ invokes the ‘messianity’ of the Real against the Greek priority of Being and the Judaic priority of the Other, as well as their mediation.
François Laruelle (2026) studied this question.