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 ...

In April 1970 a colloquium of French philosophers and critics was held at Cluny on certain major themes in contemporary thought. By all accounts the most voluble presence at the proceedings was a man ...

In the spring course “Derrida’s Library: Deconstructon and the Book,” students studied the French philosopher Jacques Derrida through a hands-on exploration of his personal working library, which was ...

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 ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. A little background. The name of Derrida has been an unfortunate enchantment to hapless professors of literature ...

Virtually every area of humanistic scholarship and artistic activity in the latter part of the 20th century felt the influence of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, who has died aged 74 from ...

“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 ...