Me too, buddy. Me too.

On the heels of this winter’s record-breaking donation to their rare books collection, Princeton has just announced that they’re adding Jacques Derrida’s library (nearly 14,000 books and other papers) to the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the Firestone Library.

A press release from Princeton notes that the materials represent a lifetime of active, engaged reading: Derrida “grappled with what he read, covering pages with notes and cross-references, inserting other handwritten materials, quoting and adapting what he read into what he wrote. As Derrida himself said in an interview later in his life, his books bear ‘traces of the violence of pencil strokes, exclamation points, arrows and underlining.’”

This acquisition comes after more than a year of “discussions and complex arrangements” and “an examination of the collection in Paris by an expert team from Princeton.” In October, Princeton honored the tenth anniversary of the philosopher’s death with a three-day symposium called “Unpacking Derrida’s Library: Secrets of the Archive,” which celebrated “the ways in which Derrida’s writings helped transform our understanding of a range of disciplines and areas in the humanities.”

Further essential, expertly curated, lovingly packaged material from the father of Deconstructionism can, of course, be found in Learning to Live Finally: The Last Interview with Jacques Derrida.