'Derrida' redirects here. For the documentary film, see. For the physicist, see. Jacques Derrida Full name Jacques Derrida Born 15, 1930 ( 1930--15) (), Died Paris, France Era Region Western Philosophy,, Main interests Notable ideas Jacques Derrida (; French pronunciation:; July 15, 1930 – October 9, 2004) was a French philosopher, born in. He developed the critical theory known as and his work has been labeled as and associated with.

His output of more than 40 published books, together with essays and public speaking, has had a significant impact upon the, particularly on and. Perhaps Derrida's most quoted and famous assertion, which appears in an essay on in his book (1967), is the statement that 'there is nothing outside the text' ( il n'y a pas de hors-texte), meaning that there is nothing outside context. Critics of Derrida have quoted it as a slogan to characterize and stigmatize deconstruction. Deconstruction has become associated with the attempt to expose and undermine the oppositions and on which particular texts, philosophical and otherwise, are founded.

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He frequently called such paradoxes '.' Derrida's strategy involved explicating the historical roots of philosophical ideas, questioning the ' that he sees as having dominated philosophy since the, careful textual analysis, and attempting to undermine and subvert the paradoxes themselves. Derrida's work has had implications across many fields, including literature, architecture (in the form of ), sociology, and cultural studies.

Particularly in his later writings, he frequently addressed and political themes, and his work influenced various activist and other political movements. His widespread influence made him a well-known cultural figure, while his approach to philosophy and the purported difficulty of his work also made him a figure of some controversy.

His work has been seen as a challenge to the unquestioned assumptions of the and as a whole. Main article: While discussing the reception his famous assertion that 'There is nothing outside the text,' Derrida gave the following description of deconstruction: One of the definitions of what is called deconstruction would be the effort to take this limitless context into account, to pay the sharpest and broadest attention possible to context, and thus to an incessant movement of recontextualization. 1973–1980 Starting in 1972, Derrida produced on average more than a book per year. Derrida continued to produce important works, such as (1974) and (1980). Derrida received increasing attention in the United States after 1972, where he was a regular visiting professor and lecturer at several major American universities.

In the 1980s, during the, started a dispute over Derrida's influence and legacy upon American intellectuals, and claimed that he influenced American literary critics and theorists more than academic philosophers. [ Need quotation to ] The Quarrel with John Searle. I have always found Derrida difficult to read. Not so much by the density of the morose, redundant, and repetitive thought and style that he seems to have developed, but for an entirely circumstantial reason.

Educated in Borges's thought from the age of fifteen, many of Derrida's novelties struck me as somewhat tautological. I could not understand how it took him so long to capture the bright prospects that Borges had opened so many years ago. The famous 'deconstruction' impressed me for its technical precision and the infinite seduction of its textual mirror, but I was familiar with it: it had been practiced in Borges avant la lettre. Hostile obituaries Critical obituaries of Derrida were published in, and. The magazine responded to the NYT obituary saying that 'even though American papers had scorned and trivialized Derrida before, the tone seemed particularly caustic for an obituary of an internationally acclaimed philosopher who had profoundly influenced two generations of American humanities scholars.' Charges of nihilism Italian historian, in 1976 briefly labeled Derrida's 1967 criticism in Cogito and the History of Madness, as 'facile, nihilistic objections,' without giving further argumentation. In 1991, the dispute with, which was also conducted and publicized through the mass circulation magazine, also included charges of nihilism.

Derrida often said that 'his interests lie in provoking not an anti-Enlightenment but a new Enlightenment'. To provoke this new Enlightenment, he had to question the axioms and certainties of the Enlightenment itself. However, his critics respond by claiming that Derrida's obfuscating style and nihilistic tendencies cannot adequately provide any ground for a 'New Enlightenment’. [ ] Politics. Main article: Derrida's most prominent friendship in intellectual life was with Paul de Man, which began with their meeting at and continued until de Man's death in 1983. De Man provided a somewhat different approach to deconstruction, and his readings of literary and philosophical texts were crucial in the training of a generation of readers. Shortly after de Man's death, Derrida authored a book Memoires: pour Paul de Man and in 1988 wrote an article in the journal called 'Like the Sound of the Sea Deep Within a Shell: Paul de Man's War'.

The memoir became cause for controversy, because shortly before Derrida published his piece, it had been discovered by the Belgian literary critic that long before his academic career in the US, de Man had written almost two hundred essays in a pro-Nazi newspaper during the, including several that were explicitly. Derrida complicated the notion that it is possible to simply read de Man's later scholarship through the prism of these earlier political essays. Rather, any claims about de Man's work should be understood in relation to the entire body of his scholarship. Critics of Derrida have argued that he minimizes the antisemitic character of de Man's writing. Some critics have found Derrida's treatment of this issue surprising, given that, for example, Derrida also spoke out against antisemitism and, in the 1960s, broke with the Heidegger disciple over a phrase of Beaufret's that Derrida (and, after him, ) interpreted as antisemitic. Michel Foucault Derrida's criticism of appears in the essay Cogito and the History of Madness (from ).

It was first given as a lecture on March 4, 1963, at a conference at 's, which Foucault attended, and caused a rift between the two men that was never fully mended. In an appendix added to the 1972 edition of his History of Madness, Foucault disputed Derrida's interpretation of his work, and accused Derrida of practicing 'a historically well-determined little pedagogy [.] which teaches the student that there is nothing outside the text [.]. A pedagogy which inversely gives to the voice of the masters that infinite sovereignty that allows it indefinitely to re-say the text.'

According to historian, Foucault may have written (1966) and partly under the stimulus of Derrida's criticism. Briefly labeled Derrida's criticism in Cogito and the History of Madness, as 'facile, nihilistic objections,' without giving further argumentation. Derrida's translators. This section does not any. Please help improve this section by adding citations to. Unsourced material may be and. (December 2008), and belong to a group of Derrida translators.

Many of these are esteemed thinkers in their own right, with whom Derrida worked in a collaborative arrangement, allowing his prolific output to be translated into English in a timely fashion. Having started as a student of de Man, took on the translation of Of Grammatology early in her career and has since revised it into a second edition. Alan Bass was responsible for several early translations; Bennington and have continued to produce translations of his work for nearly twenty years.

In recent years, a number of translations have appeared by Michael Naas (also a Derrida scholar) and Pascale-Anne Brault. Bennington, Brault, Kamuf, Naas, Elizabeth Rottenberg, and are currently engaged in translating Derrida's previously unpublished seminars, which span from 1959 to 2003. The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I, which presents Derrida's seminar from 2001 to 2002, has appeared in English translation; further volumes currently projected for the series include The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II (2002–2003), Death Penalty, Volume I (1999–2000), Death Penalty, Volume II (2000–2001), Perjury and Pardon, Volume I (1997–1998), and Perjury and Pardon, Volume II (1998–1999). With Bennington, Derrida undertook the challenge published as Jacques Derrida, an arrangement in which Bennington attempted to provide a systematic explication of Derrida's work (called the 'Derridabase') using the top two-thirds of every page, while Derrida was given the finished copy of every Bennington chapter and the bottom third of every page in which to show how deconstruction exceeded Bennington's account (this was called the 'Circumfession').

Derrida seems to have viewed Bennington in particular as a kind of rabbinical explicator, noting at the end of the 'Applied Derrida' conference, held at the University of Luton in 1995 that: 'everything has been said and, as usual, Geoff Bennington has said everything before I have even opened my mouth. I have the challenge of trying to be unpredictable after him, which is impossible. So I'll try to pretend to be unpredictable after Geoff. Marshall McLuhan Derrida was familiar with the work of, and since his early 1967 writings ( Of Grammatology, Speech and Phenomena), he speaks of language as a 'medium,' of phonetic writing as 'the medium of the great metaphysical, scientific, techni­cal, and economic adventure of the West.' He expressed his disagreement with McLuhan in regard to what Derrida called McLuhan's ideology about the end of writing. In a 1982 interview, he said: 'I think that there is an ideology in McLuhan's discourse that I don't agree with, because he's an optimist as to the possibility of restoring an oral community which would get rid of the writing machines and so on.

I think that's a very traditional myth which goes back to. Let's say Plato, Rousseau. And instead of thinking that we are living at the end of writing, I think that in another sense we are living in the extension – the overwhelming extension – of writing. At least in the new sense.

I don't mean the alphabetic writing down, but in the new sense of those writing machines that we're using now (e.g. The tape recorder). And this is writing too.'

Jacques Derrida is probably the most famous European philosopher alive today. The University of Nebraska Press makes available for the first English translation of his most important work to date, Glas.

Its appearance will assist Derrida's readers pro and con in coming to terms with a complex and controversial book. Glas extensively reworks the problems of reading and writing in philosophy and literature; questions the possibility of linear reading and its consequent notions of theme, author, narrative, and discursive demonstration; and ingeniously disrupts the positions of reader and writer in the text. Glas is extraordinary in many ways, most obviously in its typography. Download Arabic Ttf Fonts For Android. Arranged in two columns, with inserted sections within these, the book simultaneously discusses Hegel's philosophy and Jean Genet's fiction, and shows how two such seemingly distinct kinds of criticism can reflect and influence one another. The customary segregation of philosophy, rhetoric, psychoanalysis, linguistics, history, and poetics is systematically subverted. In design and content, the books calls into question 'types' of literature (history, philosophy, literary criticism), the ownership of ideas and styles, the glorification of literary heroes, and the limits of literary representation.