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 ...

In the spring course “Derrida’s Library: Deconstructon and the Book,” students studied the French philosopher Jacques Derrida through a hands-on exploration of his personal working library, which was ...

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 ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. A little background. The name of Derrida has been an unfortunate enchantment to hapless professors of literature ...

BRING OUT YOUR DEAD: While crossing a street in Paris in 1980, Roland Barthes was run over by a truck; a few weeks later, he succumbed to complications from the accident. The next year, Jacques ...

Sadly, the same cannot be said of Jacques Derrida, who, for a generation of brilliant French philosophers and critics, was the last man standing until October 9, when the president of France, Chirac, ...

Jacques Derrida, the founder of “deconstructionism” who died recently in Paris, will be remembered as one of the most important philosophers and Jewish thinkers of the past century. Derrida’s impact ...

In April 1970 a colloquium of French philosophers and critics was held at Cluny on certain major themes in contemporary thought. By all accounts the most voluble presence at the proceedings was a man ...

In 2010, writer and essayist Benoît Peeters published Derrida: A Biography, the philosopher's first biography. In an interview with Le Monde's book section, he discussed the influence and place of ...