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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ON THE OCCASION of the 20th anniversary of the “Whither Marxism?” conference conceived by Stephen Cullenberg and Bernd Magnus and organized by the Center for Ideas and Society at the University of ...

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 ...

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 ...