French philosopher Jacques Derrida's profound insight into human solitude underscores the absolute need for personal accountability and inner strength. He emphasized that each individual must embrace ...

Jacques Derrida, the thinker whose concept of “deconstruction” influenced at least two generations of scholarship in the humanities, died in Paris on Friday at the age of 74. The director of the ...

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 ...

At Barnard College, a group of academics remembered the life and work of French philosopher and literary theorist Jacques Derrida, who died last month. Barnard professor Serge Gavronsky was 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 ideas of the arch-deconstructionist philosopher are illuminated but not entirely clarified in this ambivalent study. Mikics (A New Handbook of Literary Terms) gives an insightful and blessedly ...

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 ...

True to its title, Jacques Derrida’s The Work of Mourning (2001) is a haunting book, consisting of a series of 14 texts, each memorializing one of his deceased friends. Interspersed throughout these ...