Five years after his death, Jacques Derrida's ideas continue to resonate By Simon Reid-Henry Five years ago, the French philosopher and founder of “deconstruction” Jacques Derrida died of pancreatic ...

A public lecture to Hong Kong students by the acclaimed French philosopher Jacques Derrida drew an overwhelming response this week. There was standing room only in Li Koon Chun Hall in Chung Chi ...

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 ...

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 ...

I heard Jacques Derrida give his only lecture in Cambridge, England, in 1992 on the occasion of his being awarded amidst fierce opposition an honorary degree. Honorary degrees are routinely conferred ...

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 ...

Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher, who has died aged 74, was the founding father of deconstructionism, a controversial system of analysis which challenges the basis of traditional western ...

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.