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Sunday, October 10, 2004, 21:45

Jacques Derrida - Father of deconstruction dies

The New York Times

Jacques Derrida, the Algerian-born French intellectual who became one of the most celebrated and notoriously difficult philosophers of the late 20th century, died Friday at a Paris hospital. He was 74.

Derrida was known as the father of deconstruction, the method of inquiry that asserted that all writing was full of confusion and contradiction, and that the author's intent could not overcome the inherent contradictions of language itself.

The concept was eventually applied to the whole gamut of arts and social sciences, including linguistics, anthropology, political science, even architecture. >> continue


SEE ALSO
More on Derrida in Wikipedia
Jacques Derrida Online (site navigation on the top)

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