Derrida has described his philosophic project as "a general strategy of deconstruction which would avoid both simply neutralizing the binary oppositions of metaphysics and simply residing, while ...

Stories about love offer models for how you might commit your life to another person. Stories about friendship are usually about how you might commit to life itself. There’s a moment in Maxine Hong ...

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 ...

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 ...

Derrida’s essay on Shakespeare (image via imgur.com) (click to enlarge) For a long time, I’ve struggled to understand the academy’s obsequious reverence for Jacques Derrida, famed founder of the ...

Celebrated French-Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida focused his attention on the oppositional binaries Western philosophy and literature are seeped in. His deconstruction of language and philosophy ...

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 ...

On October 10, the New York Times published a front-page obituary for French philosopher Jacques Derrida. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional ...

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 ...

“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 ...