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 ...

PARIS – World renowned thinker Jacques Derrida (search), a founder of the school of philosophy known as deconstructionism, has died, the office of French President Jacques Chirac said Saturday.

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 ...

Jacques Derrida, the influential French thinker and writer who inspired admiration, vilification and utter bewilderment as the founder of the intellectual movement known as deconstruction, has died.

Jacques Derrida, the French intellectual who became one of the most celebrated and notoriously difficult philosophers of the late 20th century, died Friday at a Paris hospital, the French president's ...

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 ...

Thomas Bartlett’s “Archive Fever” (The Chronicle, July 20), about the circumstances of the suit that the University of California at Irvine brought against the family of Jacques Derrida, gives an ...

Today in the world of glorious web discoveries, I saw on the OpenCulture twitter account a link to an interview between jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman and deconstructionist philosopher Jacques Derrida.

WHEN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT CRAZY FRENCH INTELLECTUALS and esoteric superstars, when they stumble across the word deconstructionism in Entertainment Weekly and wonder what it could possibly mean, when ...