Attacks on Jacques Derrida are nothing new: since the early 1980s, they’ve been a favorite sport of certain other philosophers in his own country, not to mention the American media. Even almost a ...

Martin Heidegger once said that a biography of Aristotle should be simple, saying “He was born. He thought. He died.” The rest, the German philosopher said, was merely anecdote. Jacques Derrida says ...

Jacques Derrida, the thinker whose concept of “deconstruction” influenced at least two generations of scholarship in the humanities, died in Paris on Friday at the age of 74. The director of the ...

To extricate our civilisation from perils of binary thinking, we need to represent heterogenous world pictures and blur boundaries. This can be done by engaging in what Derrida calls endless ...