In philosophy and the humanities, Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, was born in El Biar in Algiers ; Malek Bennabi and Frantz Fanon are noted for their thoughts on decolonization ; Augustine of Hippo was born in Tagaste ( modern-day Souk Ahras ); and Ibn Khaldun, though born in Tunis, wrote the Muqaddima while staying in Algeria.

Derrida states that his use of the word deconstruction first took place in a context in which " structuralism was dominant " and its use is related to this context.

So for Derrida deconstruction involves “ a certain attention to structures " and tries to “ understand how an ' ensemble ' was constituted.

Derrida states that “ the motif of deconstruction has been associated with " poststructuralism "" but that this term was " a word unknown in France until its “ return ” from the United States.

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.

In the United States, as the hoax was revealed by Sokal, French philosopher Jacques Derrida was initially one of the favourite targets of discredit, particularly in newspaper coverage.

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.

These debates included the question of whether it was possible to do without Heidegger's philosophy, a position which Derrida in particular rejected.

Taking place in the rear courtyard of the Hôpital de la Salpêtriêre, it was attended by hundreds of admirers who had seen the event advertised in Le Monde, including left wing activists like Yves Montand and Simone Signoret and academics such as Jacques Derrida, Paul Veyne, Pierre Bourdieu and Georges Dumézil.

Jacques Derrida (; ; July 15, 1930 – October 9, 2004 ) was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria.

On the first day of the school year in 1942, Derrida was expelled from his lycée by French administrators implementing anti-Semitic quotas set by the Vichy government.

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.

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

UCI and the Derrida family are currently involved in a legal dispute regarding exactly what materials constitute his archive, part of which was informally bequeathed to the university.

Derrida suggested in an interview that part of the reason for the violent attacks on his work, was that it questioned and modified " the rules of the dominant discourse, it tries to politicize and democratize education and the university scene.

Derrida was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In 2003, Derrida was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which reduced his speaking and travelling engagements.

At the time of his death, Derrida had agreed to go for the summer to Heidelberg as holder of the Gadamer professorship, whose invitation was expressed by the hermeneutic philosopher himself before his death.

Derrida said this phase was structural and that it was " the necessity of an interminable analysis " because " the hierarchy of dual oppositions always reestablishes itself ".

In the deconstruction procedure, one of the main concerns of Derrida is not to collapse in Hegel ´ s dialectic where these oppositions would be reduced to contradictions in a dialectic whose telos would, necessarily, be to resolve it into a synthesis, The presence of Hegelianism was enormous in the intellectual life of France during the second half of the 20th century with the influence of Kojève and Hyppolite, but also with the impact of dialectics based on contradiction developed by Marxists, and including the existentialism from Sartre, etc.

At the very beginning of his philosophical career Derrida was concerned to elaborate a critique of the limits of phenomenology.

* 8 October-Jacques Derrida, philosopher ( born 1930 ).

Questioned this myth of the presence of meaning in itself (" objective ") and / or for itself (" subjective ") Derrida will start a long deconstruction of all texts where conceptual oppositions are put to work in the actual construction of meaning and values based on the subordination of the movement of " differance ":

There is one statement by Derrida which he regarded as the axial statement of his whole essay on Rousseau ( part of the highly influential Of Grammatology, 1967 ), and which is perhaps his most quoted and famous statement ever.

" As mentioned above in section on Derrida's deconstruction of Husserl Derrida actually argues for the contamination of pure origins by the structures of language and temporality and Manfred Frank has even referred to Derrida's work as " Neostructuralism " and this seems to capture Derrida's novel concern for how texts are structured.

The popularity of the term deconstruction combined with the technical difficulty of Derrida's primary material on deconstruction and his reluctance to elaborate his understanding of the term has meant that many secondary sources have attempted to give a more straightforward explanation than Derrida himself ever attempted.

Jacques Derrida has had a huge influence on contemporary political theory and political philosophy.

Richard Beardsworth, developing on Critchley's Ethics of Deconstruction, argues in his 1996 Derrida and the Political that deconstruction is an intrinsically political practice.

* Jacques Derrida on deconstruction

Postmodernists and Post-Structuralists such as Richard Rorty and Jacques Derrida have attacked foundationalism on the grounds that the truth of a statement or discourse is only verifiable in accordance with other statements and discourses.

* Magliola, Robert, Derrida on the Mend ( Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1984 ; 1986 ; pbk.

Lacan's account includes a psychoanalytic dimension, while Derrida stresses the effects of power on the self.

Philosopher Jacques Derrida wrote on Voice.

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 ).

Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida focused on how structuralism could be applied to literature.

For instance a US weekly magazine used two images of Derrida, a photo and a caricature, to illustrate a " dossier " on the Sokal article in which Derrida's name didn't appear once.

In Jacques Derrida's response, " Sokal and Bricmont Aren't Serious ," first published in Le Monde, Derrida writes that the Sokal hoax is rather " sad ," not only because Alan Sokal's name is now linked primarily to a hoax, not to science, but also because the chance to reflect seriously on these issues has been ruined for a broad public forum that deserves better.

Derrida reminds his readers that science and philosophy have long debated their likenesses and differences in the discipline of epistemology, but certainly not with such an emphasis on the nationality of the philosophers or scientists.

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.

( For more on this see Penser à Strasbourg, Jacques Derrida, et al., which includes reproductions of both letters and an account by Braun, " À mi-chemin entre Heidegger et Derrida ").

Forums where these debates took place include the proceedings of the first conference dedicated to Derrida's work, published as " Les Fins de l ' homme à partir du travail de Jacques Derrida: colloque de Cerisy, 23 juillet-2 août 1980 ", Derrida's " Feu la cendre / cio ' che resta del fuoco ", and the studies on Paul Celan by Lacoue-Labarthe and Derrida which shortly preceded the detailed studies of Heidegger's politics published in and after 1987.

Derrida and others not only continued to defend the importance of reading Heidegger, but attacked Farías on the grounds of poor scholarship and for what they saw as the sensationalism of his approach.

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 ).