Jacques Derrida

Also known as Jackie Derrida, Jackie Elie Derrida, Jackie Élie Derrida, J. Derrida

French philosopher (1930–2004)

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Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher who developed an influential approach to reading texts called deconstruction, which challenged the idea that language and meaning are straightforward or stable. His work fundamentally changed how scholars across many fields—including literature, law, and politics—think about language, interpretation, and the assumptions embedded in Western thought.

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Born: 15 July 1930
Died: 8 October 2004
Works: 331

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声音与现象
al-Naqd wa-al-mujtamaʻ
Body of prayer
死を与える
Nietzsche - Politik des Eigennamens

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: France
Active from: 1930-07-15
Active to: 2004-10-08

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Global Cancer Statistics 2020: GLOBOCAN Estimates of Incidence and Mortality Worldwide for 36 Cancers in 185 Countries
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Global cancer statistics 2018: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries
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Global cancer statistics
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Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012
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Global cancer statistics 2022: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries
· 2024 · cited 18,783x

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Quotes

“Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.”
“The end of man (as a factual anthropological limit) is announced to thought from the vantage of the end of man (as a determined opening or the infinity of a telos). Man is that which is in relation to his end, in the fundamentally equivocal sense of the word. Since always.”
“What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is extremely vast, old, firmly established, or rooted in a network of conventions … and yet which still remains a context.”
“As soon as we cease to believe in such an engineer and in a discourse which breaks with the received historical discourse, and as soon as we admit that every finite discourse is bound by a certain bricolage and that the engineer and the scientist are also species of bricoleurs, then the very idea of bricolage is menaced and the difference in which it took on its meaning breaks down.”
“Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'here are our monsters', without immediately turning the monsters into pets.”
“Circumcision, that’s all I’ve ever talked about.”

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Official website: plato.stanford.edu/entries/derrida
Image: Derrida EHESS (cropped).png

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Commons category: Jacques Derrida
date of birth: 1930-07-15
birth name: Jackie Élie Derrida
name in native language: Jacques Derrida
Academia.edu profile URL: www.academia.edu/People/Jacques_Derrida
end of work period: 2004-01-01
date of death: 2004-10-09
start of work period: 1957-01-01

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Jacques Derrida (/dɛrɪˈdə, ˈdɛriːdɑː/; French: [ʒak dɛʁida]; born Jackie Élie Derrida; 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was a French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in a number of his texts, and which was developed through close readings of the linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology. He is one of the major figures associated with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy although he distanced himself from post-structuralism and disavowed the word "postmodernity".

During his career, Derrida published over 40 books, together with hundreds of essays and public presentations. He has had a significant influence on the humanities and social sciences, including philosophy, literature, law, anthropology, historiography, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, psychoanalysis, music, architecture, and political theory.