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Nevertheless, there's nothing equal to what may be actually described as that ‘biography of a philosophy’ to be found in Edward Baring’s The Younger Derrida and French Philosophy, which meticulously tracks the younger Derrida’s turn from existentialism in the direction of self-consciously scholastic readings of Husserl or the event of différance as manifest within the edits and rewrites of early papers for publication in Writing and Differance. Baring’s book - itself a product of much time served within the archive - can be reviewed by Andrew McGettigan in RP 178.) So, whereas, for instance, Peeters notes in passing Derrida’s 1964 award of the ‘prestigious’ Prix Cavaillès for his translation and introduction of Husserl’s Origin of Geometry, nowhere does he comment how apparently odd, from the angle of his subsequent status, it ought to be that Derrida’s first such recognition should have come in the context of the philosophy of mathematics, nor what significance for the ‘genesis of the principal works’ that had been to come this might have.