Philosopher · Twentieth century · Algeria
Jacques Derrida
1930–2004
Algerian born French thinker who founded deconstruction, reading texts against themselves to show meaning always slipping away. Of Grammatology of 1967 made him famous and controversial. He lived 1930 to 2004.
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- Born
- 1930, El Biar, Algeria.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Jacques Derrida
- Died
- 2004, Paris, France.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Jacques Derrida
- School
- Deconstruction; post structuralism.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Jacques Derrida
- Known for
- Differance, the critique of the metaphysics of presence, and readings of Plato, Rousseau, and Husserl.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Jacques Derrida
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