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.

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From the 1960s and 1970s onward, language, symbolism, text, and meaning came to be seen as the theoretical foundation for the humanities, through the influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ferdinand de Saussure, George Herbert Mead, Noam Chomsky, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida and other thinkers in linguistic and analytic philosophy, structural linguistics, symbolic interactionism, hermeneutics, semiology, linguistically oriented psychoanalysis ( Jacques Lacan, Alfred Lorenzer ), and deconstruction.

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

* Jacques Derrida on deconstruction

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* Derrida, Jacques, Positions.

* Derrida, Jacques Letter to A Japanese Friend, in Wood, David and Bernasconi, Robert ( eds., 1988 ) Derrida and Différance, Warwick: Parousia, 1985

* Video of Jacques Derrida attempting to define " Deconstruction "

* Jacques Derrida: The Perchance of a Coming of the Otherwoman.

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.

* Derrida, Jacques, 1954 ( French ), 2003 ( English ).

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

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.

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Jacques Derrida, whose deconstruction is perhaps most commonly labeled nihilistic, did not himself make the nihilistic move that others have claimed.

But it made an earlier appearance in Provence, where the traveler Jean Jacques Bouchard wrote of eating it in Toulon in 1630.

Frank Redelius, one of Maroger's protégés from the Baltimore Realists group, wrote a book that updates, builds upon and revises Jacques Maroger's research of the painting techniques and formulas of the Old Masters.

Two notable Western composers for the kora are Brother Dominique Catta and Jacques Burtin ( France ), who wrote most of these scores, though composers like Carole Ouellet ( Canada ), Brother Grégoire Philippe ( Monastère de Keur Moussa ) and Sister Claire Marie Ledoux ( France ) contributed with original works.

André Thevet, the " Royal Cosmographer of France ", wrote about Jacques Cartier drinking maple sap during his Canadian voyages.

Jacques Cretineau-Joly, however, wrote a critical history of the Pope's administration.

Philosopher Jacques Derrida wrote on Voice.

Later Breton wrote, " In literature, I was successively taken with Rimbaud, with Jarry, with Apollinaire, with Nouveau, with Lautréamont, but it is Jacques Vaché to whom I owe the most.

The French writers ' duo Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy wrote a large number of opera and operetta libretti for the likes of Jacques Offenbach, Jules Massenet and Georges Bizet.

Certain portions of Champollion's works were edited by his elder brother, Jacques Joseph Champollion-Figeac ; Jacques Joseph's son, Aimé-Louis ( 1812 – 1894 ), wrote a biography of the two brothers.

Jacques Offenbach wrote an opéra comique called Robinson Crusoé which was first performed at the Opéra-Comique, Salle Favart on 23 November 1867.

" The British press reported a triumphant royal command performance ; The Illustrated London News wrote, " Herr Jacques Offenbach, the astonishing Violoncellist, performed on Thursday evening at Windsor before the Emperor of Russia, the King of Saxony, Queen Victoria, and Prince Albert with great success.

An earlier biographer, André Martinet, wrote, " Jacques spent money without counting.

" As Jacques Lafaye wrote in Quetzalcoatl and Guadalupe, " as the Christians built their first churches with the rubble and the columns of the ancient pagan temples, so they often borrowed pagan customs for their own cult purposes.

During 1956 – 57, Sykes also wrote for and performed in The Tony Hancock Show, where he again worked with Hattie Jacques.

In 1959 Sykes wrote and directed the one-off BBC special Gala Opening, with a cast that included ' Professor ' Stanley Unwin and Hattie Jacques, and played a small supporting role in the Tommy Steele film Tommy the Toreador.

In 1977, Sykes wrote and starred in another television special, Eric Sykes Shows a Few of Our Favourite Things, with Hattie Jacques, Irene Handl, Jimmy Edwards and Peter Cook.

McKuen later wrote, " When news of Jacques ' death came, I stayed locked in my bedroom and drank for a week.

Until the mid-20th century, Belgian writers more often wrote in French even if they were Flemish, due both to the then-dominant position of that language in worldwide culture and its dominant position within Belgium itself ( e. g. Suzanne Lilar, Emile Verhaeren or Maurice Maeterlinck ), and many French-speaking individuals come from originally Dutch-speaking families ( particularly in Brussels, e. g. Jacques Brel ).

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

During this time, he wrote his best-known work, the 1967 essay " The Death of the Author ," which, in light of the growing influence of Jacques Derrida's deconstruction, would prove to be a transitional piece in its investigation of the logical ends of structuralist thought.

As a twenty-year-old, former French president Jacques Chirac also wrote a translation which was never published.