Jacques Derrida, the influential French thinker and writer who inspired admiration, vilification and utter bewilderment as the founder of the intellectual movement known as deconstruction, has died.

A public lecture to Hong Kong students by the acclaimed French philosopher Jacques Derrida drew an overwhelming response this week. There was standing room only in Li Koon Chun Hall in Chung Chi ...

Jacques Derrida, the French intellectual who became one of the most celebrated and notoriously difficult philosophers of the late 20th century, died Friday at a Paris hospital, the French president's ...

ON THE OCCASION of the 20th anniversary of the “Whither Marxism?” conference conceived by Stephen Cullenberg and Bernd Magnus and organized by the Center for Ideas and Society at the University of ...

The popularity of Jacques Derrida's philosophy among academics is hard to understand except as a symptom of decadence. Western intellectuals have never been more safe, more comfortable or more free - ...

Europe has never been indifferent to its own meanings and significance. The modern discourses of European self-identification and self-understanding identified the origins and birth of Europe, pillars ...

A true philosopher: Derrida questioned his own peculiar methods as much as the things he was questioning. Photo: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images In May 1992, academics at the University of Cambridge reacted ...