This paper argues that Jacques Derrida provides a compelling rebuttal to a secularism that seeks to exclude religion from the public sphere. Political theorists such as Mark Lilla claim that religion ...

Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, T. 81, Fasc. 1/2, Deconstruction 20 years after Derrida’s Death / Desconstrução: 20 anos após a morte de Derrida (2025), pp. 613-622 (10 pages) I offer here some ...

Jacques Derrida, the thinker whose concept of “deconstruction” influenced at least two generations of scholarship in the humanities, died in Paris on Friday at the age of 74. The director of the ...

Derrida’s theory, she said, offered a way to perform serious intellectual work in the humanities while maintaining “that urgency of response to the abuses of power” that fed political engagement.