Derrida not only published essays on each of these authors, but borrowed from their stylistic experimentation -- in effect, erasing the difference between philosophy and literature. He offered not so ...

I n 1990, at the Humanities Research Institute at University of California at Irvine, I found myself sitting next to Jacques Derrida at a lecture given by Ernesto Laclau. The topic was Antonio Gramsci ...

The aim of this paper is to bring critical attention to the ways in which notions of 'success' and 'failure' are applied to teaching and learning in schools in England and Wales. The main ...

Each spring until the last, for nearly 20 years, Jacques Derrida left Paris to lecture at UC Irvine. The Orange County planned community couldn’t help but seem an unlikely home for a radical French ...

Ahluwalia, Pal. (2010) Out of Africa: Post-structuralism’s Colonial Roots. US: Routledge. Baring, Edward. (2011) The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945 ...

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 ...

Derrida’s essay on Shakespeare (image via imgur.com) (click to enlarge) For a long time, I’ve struggled to understand the academy’s obsequious reverence for Jacques Derrida, famed founder of the ...

French-Jewish philosopher Jacques Derrida, who was the dean of deconstruction and died in 2004 at age 74, still divides opinions dramatically. On October 26, Yale University Press issued in paperback ...