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  1. Jacques Derrida (/ ˈ d ɛr ɪ d ə /; French: [ʒak dɛʁida]; born Jackie Élie Derrida; 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was a French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction , which he utilized in a number of his texts, and which was developed through close readings of the linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and ...

  2. Jul 11, 2024 · Jacques Derrida, French philosopher whose critique of Western philosophy and analyses of the nature of language, writing, and meaning were highly controversial yet immensely influential in much of the intellectual world in the late 20th century. Learn more about Derrida’s life and work.

  3. Jacques Derrida was one of the most well known twentieth century philosophers. He was also one of the most prolific. Distancing himself from the various philosophical movements and traditions that preceded him on the French intellectual scene (phenomenology, existentialism, and structuralism), he developed a strategy called “deconstruction ...

  4. contemporarythinkers.org › jacques-derrida › biographyBiography - Jacques Derrida

    Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) is one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the latter half of the twentieth century. He is most notable as the originator of literary “deconstruction,” which is at once an interpretive approach and a critique of Western metaphysics.

  5. Nov 14, 2022 · Jacques Derrida (b. 1930–d. 2004) was one of the most famous philosophers of the 20th century, and he has remained so since his death in 2004. Derrida’s work was described by Hélène Cixous as the greatest ethico-political warning of our time, and he was remarkably prolific.

  6. Jul 17, 2024 · Deconstruction, form of philosophical and literary analysis, derived mainly from work begun in the 1960s by Jacques Derrida, that questions the fundamental conceptual distinctions in Western philosophy through a close examination of the language and logic of philosophical and literary texts.

  7. www.encyclopedia.com › philosophy-biographies › jacques-derridaJacques Derrida | Encyclopedia.com

    Jun 27, 2018 · The French philosopher Jacques Derrida (born 1930), by developing a strategy of reading called "deconstruction," challenged assumptions about metaphysics and the character of language and written texts.

  8. Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) is one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the latter half of the twentieth century. He is most notable as the originator of literary “deconstruction,” which is at once an interpretive approach and a critique of Western metaphysics.

  9. Derrida, Jacques (1930–2004) 1. The development of deconstruction. Jacques Derrida was born a French citizen in El-Biar, Algeria, in 1930. In 1942 he was expelled from school by a rector who took it upon himself to lower the maximum number of Jewish students who could study at the lycée.

  10. Jacques Derrida was a philosopher for whom nothing about the philosophical enterprise was to be taken for granted. Without ever repudiating philosophy or abandoning the ideal of philosophical rigour, he relentlessly challenged all seemingly settled philosophical practices.

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