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 ...

Firestone Library announced last week that it had acquired a collection of over 13,800 books from the personal library of Jacques Derrida, a 20th century French philosopher best known for developing ...

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 ...

On 1 July 1997, the philosopher Jacques Derrida walked on stage at the Paris La Villette jazz festival at the invitation of jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, who he had spent the last week ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since his death in 2004, it's fair to say that the reputation of Jacques Derrida has been in a slow but steady decline. This much has been to the delight of his critics (mainly British or American), ...

ON THE OCCASION of the 20th anniversary of the “Whither Marxism?” conference conceived by Stephen Cullenberg and Bernd Magnus and organized by the Center for Ideas and Society at the University of ...

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 ...

A true philosopher: Derrida questioned his own peculiar methods as much as the things he was questioning. Photo: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images In May 1992, academics at the University of Cambridge reacted ...