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- Hebrew name is Elijah.
- Born to a French speaking Jewish family in 1930.
- Sought to found an ethics without power relationships.
- Rejected the concept of a singular authoritative subject.
- Expounded the quasi-transcendental idea of KhÅ
- Ťra.
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Jacques Derrida was one of the most prominent philosophers of the 20th century, and arguably the most influential. Derrida has been classified as part of the post-structural movement which pointed out the indefensible aspects of binary oppositions. His work has affected multiple disciplines ranging from politics and psychology to literature and philosophy. His famous concepts include that of différance and the preeminence of the written word (semiotics). Derrida is considered the founder of deconstruction, which he defined as a positive movement in love of that which is undeconstructible. Much of his writing involved deconstructing famous literary and philosophical texts by pointing out the playfulness of language and how meaning is ... Read more
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Derrida's Fear of Writing
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Of Grammatology
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In The Politics of Friendship Derrida explores relationships among other topics.
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