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.

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 ...

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 ...

Thomas Bartlett’s “Archive Fever” (The Chronicle, July 20), about the circumstances of the suit that the University of California at Irvine brought against the family of Jacques Derrida, gives an ...

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 ...

WHEN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT CRAZY FRENCH INTELLECTUALS and esoteric superstars, when they stumble across the word deconstructionism in Entertainment Weekly and wonder what it could possibly mean, when ...

The University of California has sued the family of Jacques Derrida, a pioneer in contemporary philosophy and literary theory who died in 2004. The lawsuit is the first public eruption of a bitter, ...

Today in the world of glorious web discoveries, I saw on the OpenCulture twitter account a link to an interview between jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman and deconstructionist philosopher Jacques Derrida.

True to its title, Jacques Derrida’s The Work of Mourning (2001) is a haunting book, consisting of a series of 14 texts, each memorializing one of his deceased friends. Interspersed throughout these ...