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 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 ...
Derrida’s theory, she said, offered a way to perform serious intellectual work in the humanities while maintaining “that urgency of response to the abuses of power” that fed political engagement.