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 ...

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 ...

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.

1Au moment où s’ouvre une réflexion sur le savoir absolu, nous sommes déjà entrés dans un hiver de la pensée. Cet hiver porte l’annonce du froid et du gel, figures de la pensée pétrifiée ou de la ...

Jacques Derrida, the world’s most famous philosopher, died of pancreatic cancer in a Paris hospital on October 8. He had long been shy of the spotlight. From 1962 to 1979 he refused to be photographed ...

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 ...

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 ...

When last weekend's conference at Cardozo Law was first announced, the title was given simply as "Derrida/America." Only while standing in the lobby did I learn the subtitle, "The Present State of ...

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 ...