Derrida first received major attention outside France with his lecture, " Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences ," delivered at Johns Hopkins University in 1966 ( and subsequently included in Writing and Difference ).

In 1966, de Man met Jacques Derrida at a conference at Johns Hopkins University on structuralism during which Derrida first delivered his essay " Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences ".

Jacques Derrida argued that access to meaning and the ' real ' was always deferred, and sought to demonstrate via recourse to the linguistic realm that " There is nothing outside the text "; at the same time, Jean Baudrillard theorised that signs and symbols or simulacra mask reality ( and eventually the absence of reality itself ), particularly in the consumer world.

The second generation of Classicists, often trained in philosophy as well ( following Heidegger and Derrida, mainly ), built on their work, with authors such as Marcel Detienne ( now at Johns Hopkins ), Nicole Loraux, Medievalist and logician Alain De Libera ( Geneva ), Ciceronian scholar Carlos Lévy ( Sorbonne, Paris ) and Barbara Cassin ( Collége international de philosophie, Paris ).

Because of Derrida's vehement attempts to " rescue " Heidegger from his existentialist interpreters ( and also from Heidegger's " orthodox " followers ), Derrida has at times been represented as a " French Heidegger ", to the extent that he, his colleagues, and his former students are made to go proxy for Heidegger's worst ( political ) mistakes, despite ample evidence that the reception of Heidegger's work by later practitioners of deconstruction is anything but doctrinaire.

The work most notably came under attack from a young philosopher who had been a student on Foucault's psychology course at the École Normale Supérieure, Jacques Derrida ( 1930 – 2004 ).

On his first day at the École Normale Supérieure, Derrida met Louis Althusser, with whom he became friends.

Derrida received a grant for studies at Harvard University, and he spent the 1956 – 7 academic year reading Joyce's Ulysses at the Widener Library.

Following the war, from 1960 to 1964, Derrida taught philosophy at the Sorbonne, where he was assistant of Suzanne Bachelard ( daughter of Gaston ), Canguilhem, Paul Ricœur ( who in these years coined the term School of suspicion ) and Jean Wahl.

In 1964, on the recommendation of Althusser and Jean Hyppolite, Derrida got a permanent teaching position at the École Normale Supérieure, which he kept until 1984.

Derrida was director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

In 1986, Derrida became Professor of the Humanities at the University of California, Irvine.

In the early 1960s, Derrida began speaking and writing publicly, addressing the most topical debates at the time.

Derrida received increasing attention in the United States after 1972, where he was a regular visiting professor and lecturer at several major American universities.

On March 14, 1987, Derrida presented at the CIPH conference titled " Heidegger: Open Questions " a lecture which was published in October 1987 as Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question.

In the October 2002, at the theatrical opening of the film Derrida, he said that, in many ways, he felt more and more close to Guy Debord's work, and that this closeness appears in Derrida's texts.

Though Derrida addressed the American Philosophical Association at least on one occasion in 1988, and was highly regarded by some contemporary philosophers like Richard Rorty, Alexander Nehamas, and Stanley Cavell, his work has been regarded by other analytic philosophers, such as John Searle and Willard Van Orman Quine, as pseudophilosophy or sophistry.

Derrida has often been the target of attacks by analytic philosophers ; an attack of major significance was their 1992 attempt at stopping Cambridge University from granting Derrida an Honorary Doctorate.

* Although Derrida participated in the rallies of the May 1968 protests, and organized the first general assembly at the École Normale Superieure, he said " I was on my guard, even worried in the face of a certain cult of spontaneity, a fusionist, anti-unionist euphoria, in the face of the enthusiasm of a finally " freed " speech, of restored " transparence ," and so forth.

* Derrida was not known to have participated in any conventional electoral political party until 1995, when he joined a committee in support of Lionel Jospin's Socialist candidacy, although he expressed misgivings about such organizations going back to Communist organizational efforts while he was a student at ENS.

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.

Postmodern theoretical apparatus, e. g. Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas

Postmodern theoretical apparatus, e. g., Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas

* Dermot Moran, Introduction to Phenomenology ( Oxford: Routledge, 2000 )-Charting phenomenology from Brentano, through Husserl and Heidegger, to Gadamer, Arendt, Levinas, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Derrida.

A famous dispute arose in France when Emmanuel Levinas critiqued Kierkegaard and Jacques Derrida defended him.

The philosophical concepts of Emmanuel Levinas, on ethics, and Jacques Derrida, on hospitality, provide a theoretical framework for the relationships between people in their everyday lives and apart from any form of written laws or codes.

The Passagen Verlag, the name Passagen being an allusion to Walter Benjamin's most important text Passagenwerk, publishes besides Derrida authors such as Jean-François Lyotard, Gianni Vattimo, Jean Baudrillard, Paul Feyerabend, Peter Eisenman, Jacques Lacan, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, Sarah Kofman, Gerhard Anna Concic-Kaucic, Slavoj Žižek, Emmanuel Levinas, Clifford Geertz, Ginka Steinwachs, Dennis Cooper, Wolfgang Schirmacher, etc.

The Philadelphia Association is still in existence today and is now committed to the exploration of the works of philosophers such as Wittgenstein, Derrida, Levinas and Foucault as well as the work of the French psychoanalyst Lacan.

" Also Jacques Derrida was shocked by Beaufret's anti-Semitic tirade against Emmanuel Levinas.

As a theologian and philosopher, Hart's work epitomizes the " theological turn " in phenomenology, with a focus on figures like Maurice Blanchot, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Marion and Jacques Derrida.

thesis dealt with the problem of the overcoming of metaphysics in Heidegger and Carnap ; his Ph. D. dissertation was on the ethics of deconstruction in Emmanuel Levinas and Derrida.

Critchley ’ s first book was The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas ( Blackwell, 1992 ), which became an acclaimed source on deconstruction and was the first book to argue for an ethical dimension to deconstruction.

His claim was that Derrida ’ s understanding of ethics has to be understood in relation to his engagement with the work of Levinas and the book attempts to lay out the details of their philosophical confrontation.

Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity ( Verso, 1999 ) is a collection of essays that includes his debate with Richard Rorty, as well as series of essays on Derrida, Levinas, Jacques Lacan, Jean-Luc Nancy.

Critchley offers the example of the ‘ will of God ’ as the prime example of obscurantism, but within continental philosophy also the ‘ drives ’ in Sigmund Freud, ‘ archetypes ’ in Carl Jung, the ‘ real ’ in Jaques Lacan, ‘ power ’ in Michel Foucault, ‘ différance ’ in Jaques Derrida, the ‘ trace of God ’ in Emmanuel Levinas, and the ‘ epochal withdrawal of being in and as history ’ in Martin Heidegger.

* ( 1992 ) The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, ( 2nd edition, 1999 )

* ( 1999 ) Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida, Levinas, and Contemporary French Thought, Verso, London ( Reissued, 2007 ).

He then notes that it is ridiculous and weird that there are intensities of treatment by the scientists and press, in particular, that he was " much less badly treated ," when in fact he had been the main target of US press, specifically The New York Times, where his obituary ten years later would mock deconstruction and not consider Jacques Derrida, the person, in the face of those grieving his death.

Saussure's insistence on the arbitrariness of the sign has also influenced later philosophers and theorists such as Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, and Jean Baudrillard.

His parents, Aimé Derrida ( 1896 – 1970 ) and Georgette Sultana Esther Safar ( 1901 – 1991 ), named him Jackie, after American actor Jackie Coogan, though he would later adopt a more " correct " version of his first name when he moved to Paris.

This essay was later collected in Dissemination, one of three books published by Derrida in 1972, along with the essay collection Margins of Philosophy and the collection of interviews entitled Positions.

In 1983, Searle told to The New York Review of Books a remark on Derrida allegedly made by Michel Foucault in a private conversation with Searle himself ; Derrida later despised Searle's gesture as gossip, and also condemned as violent the use of a mass circulation magazine to fight an academic debate.

Derrida complicated the notion that it is possible to simply read de Man's later scholarship through the prism of these earlier political essays.

He later served as an assistant editor and worked on sound for Derrida, a documentary based on the life of the Algerian-born French literary critic and philosopher Jacques Derrida.

And some continental philosophers ( such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, the later Heidegger, or Derrida ) doubt whether any conception of philosophy can coherently achieve its stated goals.

For example, John Searle criticized Derrida's deconstruction for " obvious and manifest intellectual weaknesses " and, later, assorted signatories protested against the award of an honorary degree to Derrida by Cambridge University.