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 ...

“IN HIM France gave the world one of the major figures of the intellectual life of our times,” announced Jacques Chirac, the French president, on the day after Jacques Derrida's death. Mr Derrida ...

Attacks on Jacques Derrida are nothing new: since the early 1980s, they’ve been a favorite sport of certain other philosophers in his own country, not to mention the American media. Even almost a ...

Each spring until the last, for nearly 20 years, Jacques Derrida left Paris to lecture at UC Irvine. The Orange County planned community couldn’t help but seem an unlikely home for a radical French ...

PARIS – World-renowned thinker Jacques Derrida, a charismatic philosopher who founded the school known as deconstructionism, has died, the French president’s office said Saturday. He was 74. Derrida ...

During the era of the Talmud, the period of the scholars known as the Amoraim (200-500 C.E.) was dedicated to the fleshing out of the sparse, cryptic pronouncements of their predecessors, the Tannaim.

In the spring course “Derrida’s Library: Deconstructon and the Book,” students studied the French philosopher Jacques Derrida through a hands-on exploration of his personal working library, which was ...

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.

Stories about love offer models for how you might commit your life to another person. Stories about friendship are usually about how you might commit to life itself. There’s a moment in Maxine Hong ...

Martin Heidegger once said that a biography of Aristotle should be simple, saying “He was born. He thought. He died.” The rest, the German philosopher said, was merely anecdote. Jacques Derrida says ...