Jacques Derrida was an Algerian-born French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in a number of his texts, and which was developed through close readings of the linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and... Wikipedia
Born: July 15, 1930, El Biar, Algeria
Died: October 9, 2004 (age 74 years), Paris, France
Influenced by: Michel Foucault, Martin Heidegger, Roland Barthes, and more
Influenced: Judith Butler, Jean-Luc Nancy, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and more
Spouse: Marguerite Aucouturier (m. 1957–2004)
Children: Daniel Derrida, Daniel Agacinski, Pierre Alferi, and more
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