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 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 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 ...

T here is much at stake in the shift from the present to the past — and so it is with Timothy Brennan’s recent Chronicle essay, “What Was Deconstruction?” In the headline’s formulation, the end of ...

Derrida Today, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2008), pp. 119-130 (12 pages) How might we begin to think about deconstruction in relation to the formulation of political policy? Once we begin to ask this question the ...

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 ...

The common sense understanding of language is that it consists of words (written signs and phonemes), which carry specific meanings, and rules for combining those words into sentences. We believe that ...

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 ...