Derrida’s theory, she said, offered a way to perform serious intellectual work in the humanities while maintaining “that urgency of response to the abuses of power” that fed political engagement.

Celebrated French-Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida focused his attention on the oppositional binaries Western philosophy and literature are seeped in. His deconstruction of language and philosophy ...

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 ...