NEW YORK -- Jacques Derrida, the controversial French philosopher often called "the father of deconstruction," died last Friday at 74. Obituaries over the weekend duly noted not only his influence on ...

Jacques Derrida, the French intellectual who became one of the most celebrated and notoriously difficult philosophers of the late 20th century, died Friday at a Paris hospital, the French president's ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Back in the early '90s, I rushed down to Cornell after class to hear a public talk by Jacques Derrida. Derrida, along with Paul de Man — who had died in 1983 — was one of the leading figures in ...

Celebrated French-Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida focused his attention on the oppositional binaries Western philosophy and literature are seeped in. His deconstruction of language and philosophy ...

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 ...

The Princeton University Library has acquired the personal working library of philosopher Jacques Derrida, who died in 2004. Derrida, an Algerian-born French Jewish philosopher, is considered one of ...

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.

“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 ...