In Derrida: A Biography, the first in-depth account of the life of the iconoclastic French postmodern philosopher, Benoît Peeters looks at the dawn of a semiotic analysis that would dominate Western ...

Jacques Derrida, the influential French thinker and writer who inspired admiration, vilification and utter bewilderment as the founder of the intellectual movement known as deconstruction, has died.

I n 1990, at the Humanities Research Institute at University of California at Irvine, I found myself sitting next to Jacques Derrida at a lecture given by Ernesto Laclau. The topic was Antonio Gramsci ...

Derrida has described his philosophic project as "a general strategy of deconstruction which would avoid both simply neutralizing the binary oppositions of metaphysics and simply residing, while ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Alan Saunders: Did you know that there's a recipe out there for a deconstructed Caesar Salad? Or that ...

Reviewed Work: Déconstruction et phénoménologie: Derrida en débat avec Husserl et Heidegger by DasturFrançoise It is precisely here (see note 49 on page 24, but also note 71 on page 28) that Dastur ...

The father of deconstruction is dead. Frances Anderton speaks with architecture critic Joseph Giovaninni about Jacques Derrida and his influence on architecture. Plus, Frank Gehry's love of Gagaku and ...

Europe has never been indifferent to its own meanings and significance. The modern discourses of European self-identification and self-understanding identified the origins and birth of Europe, pillars ...

On October 10, the New York Times published a front-page obituary for French philosopher Jacques Derrida. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional ...