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Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he applied in some of his texts, and which he developed through close readings of the linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology. He is one of the major figures associated with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy although he distanced himself from post-str…
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culture · French philosopher (1930–2004) · philosopher · literary critic · university teacher · writer · also Jacques Derrida, J. Derrida, Jackie Derrida, Jackie Elie Derrida, Jackie Élie Derrida, Derrida
Born 15 July 1930 · Died 8 October 2004 · Q130631
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s khôra, Greek for space, receptacle or site. Plato proposes that khôra rests between the sensible and the intelligible, through which everything passes but in which nothing is retained. For example, an image needs to be held by something, just as a mirror will hold a reflection. For Derrida, khôra defies attempts at naming or the either/or logic, which he
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“t be apparent even to the author of them. So a deconstruction of the text will show the variety and levels of meanings, some of which will be inconsistent with each other. Cristina Odone, deputy editor of the New Statesman Words are not what you think they are. That”
“s khôra, Greek for space, receptacle or site. Plato proposes that khôra rests between the sensible and the intelligible, through which everything passes but in which nothing is retained. For example, an image needs to be held by something, just as a mirror will hold a reflection. For Derrida, khôra defies attempts at naming or the either/or logic, which he”
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“s writing. Some critics have found Derrida”
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El Espectador: Jacques Derrida, un fantasma en busca de fantasmas
Awarded Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award (2008).
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Died 2004-10-08.
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"He's difficult to summarise because it's nonsense
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Derrida opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq and was engaged in rethinking politics and the political itself within and beyond philosophy.
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Awarded Theodor W. Adorno Award (2001).
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Received the Adorno-Preis from the University of Frankfurt
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That: "everything has been said and, as usual, Geoff Bennington has said everything before I have even opened my mouth
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Some academics at Cambridge University, mostly not from the philosophy faculty, proposed that Derrida be awarded an honorary doctorate
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When Wolin published a Derrida interview on Heidegger in the first edition of The Heidegger Controversy, Derrida argued that the interview was an intentionally malicious mistranslation, which was "demonstrably execrable"
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Published The Other Heading, in which he discussed the concept of identity (as in cultural identity, European identity, and national identity), in the name of which in Europe have been unleashed "the worst violences,"
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Wrote an article in the journal Critical Inquiry called "Like the Sound of the Sea Deep Within a Shell: Paul de Man's War"
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And was highly regarded by some contemporary philosophers like Richard Rorty, Alexander Nehamas, and Stanley Cavell, his work has been regarded by other analytic philosophers, such as John Searle and Willard Van Orman Qu
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Derrida became Professor of the Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, where he taught until shortly before his death in 2004
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With a revision in 1989 that included "Like the Sound of the Sea Deep Within a Shell: Paul de Man's War"
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Sylviane Agacinski gave birth to Derrida's third child, Daniel
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Co-founded the Collège international de philosophie (CIPH; 'International college of philosophy'), an institution intended to provide a location for philosophical research which could not be carried out elsewhere in the
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Derrida collaborated with Ken McMullen on the film Ghost Dance
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Derrida was arrested by the Czechoslovak government for leading a conference without authorization and charged with drug trafficking, although he claimed the drugs were planted on him
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Derrida produced a series of texts on mourning and memory occasioned by the loss of his friends and colleagues, many of them new engagements with their work
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Studied at University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, doctorate in France (1980).
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Received his first honorary doctorate (from Columbia University) and was awarded his State doctorate (doctorat d'État) by submitting to the University of Paris ten of his previously published books in conjunction with
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And in 1981 he founded the French Jan Hus association to support dissident Czech intellectuals
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Along with the essay collection Margins of Philosophy and the collection of interviews entitled Positions
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Derrida published more than one book per year on average
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The title of the collection had become The Structuralist Controversy
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Published his influential essay "Plato's Pharmacy" in the French journal Tel Quel
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Participated in the May 68 protests in France and met frequently with Maurice Blanchot
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Elaborated Derrida's theoretical framework
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(and subsequently included in Writing and Difference)
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Derrida began an association with the Tel Quel group of literary and philosophical theorists, which lasted for seven years
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On the recommendation of Louis Althusser and Jean Hyppolite, Derrida received a permanent teaching position at the ENS, which he kept until 1984
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Published Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry: An Introduction, which contained his own translation of Husserl's essay
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Derrida asked the question: Must not structure have a genesis, and must not the origin, the point of genesis, be already structured, in order to be the genesis of something
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Under the direction of Jean Hyppolite, along with Maurice de Gandillac, at the ENS entitled "The Ideality of the Literary Object" ("L'idéalité de l'objet littéraire"); his 1980 dissertation was subsequently published in
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Moved to Paris, attending the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, where his professor of philosophy was Étienne Borne
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French administrators in Algeria—implementing antisemitism quotas set by the Vichy government—expelled Derrida from his lycée
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However, Heidegger came out as a champion of the "German Spirit", and only withdrew from an exalting interpretation of the term in 1953
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Born 1930-07-15.
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"spirit" was one of the philosophical terms he set out to dismantle
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When the Crémieux Decree granted full French citizenship to the Jews of Algeria
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