À l’occasion des 20 ans de la mort du philosophe, le Seuil réédite “Spectres de Marx”, texte qui n’a cessé depuis 1993 de hanter le champ de la pensée et des arts. En 1993, il était encore de bon ton, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Martin Heidegger once said that a biography of Aristotle should be simple, saying “He was born. He thought. He died.” The rest, the German philosopher said, was merely anecdote. Jacques Derrida says ...

Durant l'année scolaire 1960-1961, Jacques Derrida, alors assistant en philosophie générale et logique à La Sorbonne, entreprend une lecture de la phrase d'Alain, "Penser, c'est dire non". Ce cours ...

On ne trouve chez Jacques Derrida nul prêt à penser pour nos temps de détresse, mais une prodigieuse invite à penser par soi-même, au sens même du « qu’est-ce que les Lumières ? » kantien dont il ...

Don’t smooth out the folds. Early in his career, as the skyrocket of his stardom was fueling, Jacques Derrida had to answer a question his Jewish mother asked with a frown: “But Jackie, have you ...

During the era of the Talmud, the period of the scholars known as the Amoraim (200-500 C.E.) was dedicated to the fleshing out of the sparse, cryptic pronouncements of their predecessors, the Tannaim.

On Sunday, about 200 people crowded into the Jacob Burns Moot Court of the Cardozo School of Law in New York City to speak of Jacques Derrida -- a.k.a. "Jackie" and "JD" -- at a conference called ...

Facing a backlash from scholars worldwide, UC Irvine says it will drop a lawsuit against the widow and children of professor and philosopher Jacques Derrida, the acclaimed founder of the intellectual ...

DERRIDA: Documentary. Directed by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman. (Not rated. 85 minutes. In English and French with English subtitles. At the Opera Plaza, Shattuck in Berkeley and Rafael Film ...