Over the past four decades, scholars in the American humanities have used deconstruction — a style of interpretation pioneered by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida — to question the binary ...

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 ...

The year of the United States Bicentennial found French philosopher Jacques Derrida feeling rather intimidated. The University of Virginia—founded by Thomas Jefferson—had invited him to compare ...

Redfield (The Rhetoric of Terror) deftly weaves case studies, intellectual histories, and analyses into this educational and, at times, revelatory account of the rise of European literary ...

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.

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 ...