Jacques Derrida
French philosopher
Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher who developed the approach known as deconstruction. He wrote Of Grammatology, which appeared in 1967.
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French Born 1930 in El Biar, Algeria Died 2004
Influenced by Martin Heidegger, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault
About Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was a French philosopher, born in El Biar in French Algeria. He developed deconstruction, an approach he shaped through close readings of Ferdinand de Saussure's linguistics and of the phenomenology of Husserl and Heidegger. Over his career he published more than 40 books, along with hundreds of essays and public presentations. Of Grammatology appeared in 1967. In the last two decades of his life he was Professor in Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, and in 2001 he received the Theodor W. Adorno Prize.