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.

Jacques Derrida wrote several critical studies of Husserl early in his academic career.

Philosopher Jacques Derrida wrote on Voice.

In 1972, Derrida wrote " Signature Event Context ," an essay on J. L. Austin's speech act theory ; following a critique of this text by John Searle in his 1977 essay Reiterating the Differences, Derrida wrote the same year Limited Inc abc ..., a long defense of his earlier argument.

In 1988, Derrida wrote " Afterword: Toward An Ethic of Discussion ", to be published with the previous essays in the collection Limited Inc.

Shortly after de Man's death, Derrida authored a book Memoires: pour Paul de Man and in 1988 wrote an article in the journal Critical Inquiry called " Like the Sound of the Sea Deep Within a Shell: Paul de Man's War ".

Cixous wrote a book on Derrida titled Portrait de Jacques Derrida en jeune saint juif ( Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint ).

Jacques Derrida wrote on Genet in his book Glas, and Hélène Cixous celebrated his work as an example of écriture feminine.

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.

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 ).

Derrida was born on July 15, 1930, in El Biar ( Algiers ), French Algeria, into a Sephardic Jewish family originally from Toledo that became French in 1870 when the Crémieux Decree granted full French citizenship to the indigenous Arabic-speaking Jews of French Algeria.

Each deconstruction is necessarily different ( otherwise it achieves no work ) and this is why Derrida states that “ Deconstruction takes place, it is an event .” On the other hand, deconstruction cannot be completely untranscendental because this would make it meaningless to, for example, speak of two different examples of deconstruction as both being examples of deconstruction.

" As both a structuralist and an antistructuralist gesture deconstruction is tied up with what Derrida calls the " structural problematic.

For Derrida, Genesis and Structure are both inescapable modes of description, there are some things that " must be described in terms of structure, and others which must be described in terms of genesis ," but these two modes of description are difficult to reconcile and this is the tension of the structural problematic.

He heavily influenced 20th century political philosophy both within the Frankfurt School and among others as diverse as Jacques Derrida, Hannah Arendt, and Giorgio Agamben.

More recently, he has been focussing on the work of Alain Badiou in relation with both the analytic tradition ( particularly analytic philosophy of mathematics ) and with the philosophy of Jacques Derrida.

Follower of T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Frank Kermode, Ladan didn't pay much attention to the deconstructionists ( Derrida ) or Foucault, both of whom he found arid and sterile.

Likewise, according to both Frame and Van Til, every non-Christian system contains what Jacques Derrida calls " alterity ", that is each system contains the very principles for its downfall.

On several occasions Derrida has acknowledged his debt to Husserl and Heidegger, and stated that without them he would have not said a single word.

Beginning with " The Deaths of Roland Barthes " in 1981, Derrida produced a series of texts on mourning and memory occasioned by the loss of his friends and colleagues, many of them new engagements with their work.

:" If Dick and Ziering Kofman follow Derrida, Derrida is also following them.

He rose to some of the most prestigious positions in the Académie française and influenced many subsequent French philosophers, among them Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Dominique Lecourt and Jacques Derrida.

" The differences and deferrings of différance, Derrida points out, are not merely ideal, they are not inscribed in the contours of the brain nor do they fall from the sky, the closest approximation would be to consider them as historical, that is, if the word history itself did not mean what it does, the airbrushing speech of the victor / vanquished.

Being and Time influenced many philosophers and writers, among them Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, Alexandre Kojeve, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Giorgio Agamben, Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Lévinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Alain Badiou, Herbert Marcuse, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Bernard Stiegler.