Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derridawas a French philosopher, born in Algeria. Derrida is best known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction, which he discussed in numerous texts, and developed in the context of phenomenology. He is one of the major figures associated with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy...
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth15 July 1930
caring names awakening
Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom.
believe names echoes
My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.
names mourning possibility
Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.
men play names
The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.
entered french-philosopher generality soon
As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scen.
appeal certain classical french-philosopher function good responsibility
In certain situations, there is a classical function and responsibility there that must not be avoided, even if it is just to appeal to good sense.
atheist
I rightly pass for an atheist.
football
Beyond the touchline there is nothing.
solitude speak given
We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it upon himself.
determination lexicon etc
A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance, a system that no longer tolerates the opposition of activity and passivity, nor that of cause and effect, or of indetermination and determination, etc., such that in designating consciousness as an effect or a determination, one continues - for strategic reasons that can be more or less lucidly deliberated and systematically calculated - to operate according to the lexicon of that which one is de-limiting.
love-life language i-love-life
I love language as I love life itself!
writing secret facts
No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing.
years trying firsts
These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.
political intellectual heritage
I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned.