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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jacques Derrida, the notoriously complex French theorist who died Oct. 8, was labeled by critics as a moral relativist who obscured the distinction between right and wrong. So perhaps it makes sense ...

Common sense suggests that philosophy does not lend itself to cinematic spectacle, which may explain why few thinkers, dead or alive, have ever taken the leap to the silver screen -- until now.

When Jacques Derrida died ten years ago, all the major newspapers of the world remembered the Algerian-born thinker as the most important French philosopher since Jean-Paul Sartre. On the day of his ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Alan Saunders: Did you know that there's a recipe out there for a deconstructed Caesar Salad? Or that ...