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 ...

T here is much at stake in the shift from the present to the past — and so it is with Timothy Brennan’s recent Chronicle essay, “What Was Deconstruction?” In the headline’s formulation, the end of ...

Common sense suggests that philosophy does not lend itself to cinematic spectacle, which may explain why few thinkers, dead or alive, have ever taken the leap to the silver screen -- until now.

A technique used by academics to analyse poetry may soon help industry to find out whether computer safety systems really ARE safe. University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) researcher Jim Armstrong, who ...

Jacques Derrida, the founder of “deconstructionism” who died recently in Paris, will be remembered as one of the most important philosophers and Jewish thinkers of the past century. Derrida’s impact ...

The father of deconstruction is dead. Frances Anderton speaks with architecture critic Joseph Giovaninni about Jacques Derrida and his influence on architecture. Plus, Frank Gehry's love of Gagaku and ...

Jacques Derrida, the notoriously complex French theorist who died Oct. 8, was labeled by critics as a moral relativist who obscured the distinction between right and wrong. So perhaps it makes sense ...

The death of Susan Sontag on Dec. 29 unleashed the greatest volume of intellectual and pseudo-intellectual eulogizing since ... well, since the death of Jacques Derrida on Oct. 8. So which celebrity ...

For the origins of ‘woke’ culture, look to the turn that higher education took half a century ago. A recent Wall Street Journal editorial drew attention to the source of the moral denunciation that ...

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 ...