A public lecture to Hong Kong students by the acclaimed French philosopher Jacques Derrida drew an overwhelming response this week. There was standing room only in Li Koon Chun Hall in Chung Chi ...

In the spring course “Derrida’s Library: Deconstructon and the Book,” students studied the French philosopher Jacques Derrida through a hands-on exploration of his personal working library, which was ...

Europe has never been indifferent to its own meanings and significance. The modern discourses of European self-identification and self-understanding identified the origins and birth of Europe, pillars ...

Jacques Derrida, the influential French thinker and writer who inspired admiration, vilification and utter bewilderment as the founder of the intellectual movement known as deconstruction, has died.

Alain de Botton, writer Derrida defies summary. He investigates the different ways in which attempts to simplify and summarise ideas are, in fact, a betrayal of the true complexity of things. He ...

A true philosopher: Derrida questioned his own peculiar methods as much as the things he was questioning. Photo: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images In May 1992, academics at the University of Cambridge reacted ...