Jacques Derrida

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born

July 15, 1930 in El Biar, Algeria

died

October 08, 2004

website

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/derrida/

genre

Philosophy, Literary Criticism

influences

Friedrich Nietzsche, Maurice Blanchot, Emmanuel Levinas

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Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was the founder of “deconstruction,” a way of criticizing not only both literary and philosophical texts but also political institutions. Although Derrida at times expressed regret concerning the fate of the word “deconstruction,” its popularity indicates the wide-ranging influence of his thought, in philosophy, in literary criticism and theory, in art and, in particular, architectural theory, and in political theory. Indeed, Derrida's fame nearly reached the status of a media star, with hundreds of people filling auditoriums to hear him speak, with films and televisions programs devoted to him, with countless books and articles devoted to his thinking. Beside critique, Derridean deconstruction consists in an att...more

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Average rating: 3.96 · 7,601 ratings · 398 reviews · 188 distinct works

	Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida, Alan Bass (Translation) 3.91 avg rating — 1,331 ratings — published 1967 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Translator) 3.81 avg rating — 1,108 ratings — published 1390 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Specters of Marx by Jacques Derrida, Peggy Kamuf (Translator), Bernd Magnus (Introduction) 3.98 avg rating — 518 ratings — published 1994 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Dissemination by Jacques Derrida, Barbara Johnson (Translation) 4.04 avg rating — 383 ratings — published 1975 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Gift of Death by Jacques Derrida, Mark C. Taylor (Editor), David Wills (Translator) 4.08 avg rating — 330 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Margins of Philosophy by Jacques Derrida, Alan Bass (Translator) 4.00 avg rating — 261 ratings — published 1972 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Limited Inc by Jacques Derrida, Gerald Graff (Editor), Samuel Weber (Translator) 3.93 avg rating — 197 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression by Jacques Derrida, Eric Prenowitz (Translator) 3.81 avg rating — 200 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles/Eperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche by Jacques Derrida, Barbara Harlow (Translator) 3.82 avg rating — 158 ratings — published 1972 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Politics of Friendship 4.06 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 1995 — 9 editions	My rating:

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“What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.”
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“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
― Jacques Derrida

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“Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.”
― Jacques Derrida

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