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.

Jacques Derrida, the influential French theorist and former A.D. White Professor-at-Large, died Friday in a Paris hospital from pancreatic cancer. He was 74. As the originator and principal exponent ...

Jacques Derrida, the French intellectual who became one of the most celebrated and notoriously difficult philosophers of the late 20th century, died Friday at a Paris hospital, the French president's ...

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 ...

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 ...

PARIS – World-renowned thinker Jacques Derrida, a charismatic philosopher who founded the school known as deconstructionism, has died, the French president’s office said Saturday. He was 74. Derrida ...

T here is much at stake in the shift from the present to the past — and so it is with Timothy Brennan’s recent Chronicle essay, “What Was Deconstruction?” In the headline’s formulation, the end of ...

On October 10, the New York Times published a front-page obituary for French philosopher Jacques Derrida. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional ...

The father of deconstruction is dead. Frances Anderton speaks with architecture critic Joseph Giovaninni about Jacques Derrida and his influence on architecture. Plus, Frank Gehry's love of Gagaku and ...