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 ...

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 souligne que l’expression « monolinguisme de l’autre » renvoie explicitement aux propos d’Édouard Glissant. L’auteur entend esquisser, à l’aide de cette notion, une figure de la relation, ...

Vingt ans après la mort du philosophe Jacques Derrida, reparaît aux éditions du Seuil « Spectres de Marx » (1993) un de ses livres les plus importants qui devrait, faute de réconcilier les ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2010, writer and essayist Benoît Peeters published Derrida: A Biography, the philosopher's first biography. In an interview with Le Monde's book section, he discussed the influence and place of ...

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 ...