To invoke the spirit of the past in order to accomplish a present action. To 'cast a spell and summon' past battles in order ...

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 ...

Jacques Derrida, one of France's best-known philosophers and the founder of the deconstructionist school, has died of cancer at the age of 74. He had been diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas in 2003 ...

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.

In 1966, at Johns Hopkins University in the US, a little-known glamorous French philosopher called Jacques Derrida took to the stage and eviscerated the prevailing philosophy of the day, making him an ...

French philosopher Jacques Derrida, the founder of the school of deconstructionism, has died of cancer at the age of 74, France Info radio said on Saturday. It said Algerian-born Derrida had died on ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. PARIS (AP) – World-renowned thinker Jacques Derrida, a charismatic ...