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 ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Focusing largely on the debate in the philosophy of language between Searle and Derrida on the subject of speech act theory, this essay ...

Oxford Literary Review, Vol. 41, No. 2, Deconstruction and the Child Children’s Literature: Anthropomorphism: Animality: Posthumanism (2019), pp. 274-289 (16 pages) This essay examines Derrida’s ...

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 ...

Derrida’s essay on Shakespeare (image via imgur.com) (click to enlarge) For a long time, I’ve struggled to understand the academy’s obsequious reverence for Jacques Derrida, famed founder of the ...

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 ...

T here is much at stake in the shift from the present to the past — and so it is with Timothy Brennan’s recent Chronicle essay, “What Was Deconstruction?” In the headline’s formulation, the end of ...