The personal library of Jacques Derrida, the father of Deconstructionism, has abandoned France for New Jersey. Princeton has acquired the library, consisting of 13,800 books and other materials. The ...

BRING OUT YOUR DEAD: While crossing a street in Paris in 1980, Roland Barthes was run over by a truck; a few weeks later, he succumbed to complications from the accident. The next year, Jacques ...

In Derrida: A Biography, the first in-depth account of the life of the iconoclastic French postmodern philosopher, Benoît Peeters looks at the dawn of a semiotic analysis that would dominate Western ...

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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 ...

Sadly, the same cannot be said of Jacques Derrida, who, for a generation of brilliant French philosophers and critics, was the last man standing until October 9, when the president of France, Chirac, ...

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 ...

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