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 ...

The French father of deconstruction, Jacques Derrida, has died at the age of 74, in Paris. His intellectual legacy essentially is to have articulated a theory proposing that communication is ...

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 ...

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 ...

French-Jewish philosopher Jacques Derrida, who was the dean of deconstruction and died in 2004 at age 74, still divides opinions dramatically. On October 26, Yale University Press issued in paperback ...

DERRIDA: Documentary. Directed by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman. (Not rated. 85 minutes. In English and French with English subtitles. At the Opera Plaza, Shattuck in Berkeley and Rafael Film ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jacques Derrida, writer and philosopher: born El Biar, Algeria 15 July 1930; Professor of Philosophy, Ecole Normale Supérieure 1965-84; Director of Studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences ...