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 ...

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 ...

The Princeton University Library has acquired the personal working library of philosopher Jacques Derrida, who died in 2004. Derrida, an Algerian-born French Jewish philosopher, is considered one of ...

On 1 July 1997, the philosopher Jacques Derrida walked on stage at the Paris La Villette jazz festival at the invitation of jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, who he had spent the last week ...

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 ...

Since his death in 2004, it's fair to say that the reputation of Jacques Derrida has been in a slow but steady decline. This much has been to the delight of his critics (mainly British or American), ...

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 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 ...

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.

A recipient of numerous awards and honorary doctorates around the world, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak received the Padma Bhushan in 2013 Arijit Sen The words ‘academic’ and ‘superstar’ do not usually ...