ABSTRACT
People should be able to perceive that the boundary between the autobiographical and the political is subject to a certain strain. The biographical details of the philosopher may impact on the language in which his/her work is transcribed, but the content is thought to be irreducible to the idiosyncrasies of the individual or the tongue. The work produced by a philosopher is presumed to move towards universal truths, and as such is thought to be a public exercise transcending an empirical, personal identity or signature. Nietzsche, Derrida writes in A Taste for the Secret, was a thinker who absolutely wrote his life into his work, as he practised a "Psychology of Philosophers", understanding great philosophers to be the result of a "certain psychology", as Philosophy is psychology and biography together, a movement of the living psyche. Thus individual life and the strategy of this life, insofar as it assemble all the philosophemes and all the ruses of truth.
