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 ...

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 ...

Back in the early '90s, I rushed down to Cornell after class to hear a public talk by Jacques Derrida. Derrida, along with Paul de Man — who had died in 1983 — was one of the leading figures in ...

I n 1990, at the Humanities Research Institute at University of California at Irvine, I found myself sitting next to Jacques Derrida at a lecture given by Ernesto Laclau. The topic was Antonio Gramsci ...

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.

On Sunday, about 200 people crowded into the Jacob Burns Moot Court of the Cardozo School of Law in New York City to speak of Jacques Derrida -- a.k.a. "Jackie" and "JD" -- at a conference called ...

Don’t smooth out the folds. Early in his career, as the skyrocket of his stardom was fueling, Jacques Derrida had to answer a question his Jewish mother asked with a frown: “But Jackie, have you ...

In 1966, at Johns Hopkins University in the US, a little-known, glamorous young French philosopher, Jacques Derrida, took to the stage – and eviscerated the prevailing philosophy of the day. He became ...

DERRIDA: Documentary. Directed by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman. (Not rated. 85 minutes. In English and French with English subtitles. At the Opera Plaza, Shattuck in Berkeley and Rafael Film ...