Jacques Derrida, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (died 2004)

Jacques Derrida

French philosopher (1930–2004)

Jacques Derrida was a French Algerian philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in a number of his texts, and which was developed through close readings of the linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology.…