# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacques-derrida
# Generated: 2026-09-01T17:03:10.414Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacques-derrida"
name: "Jacques Derrida"
slug: "jacques-derrida"
description: "He made \"deconstruction\" a word that escaped philosophy departments and infected literary theory, architecture, law, and decades of graduate seminars — then spent years insisting he'd been misread. His writing was famously difficult, his influence undeniable, his critics never short of ammunition."
tagline: "French philosopher (1930–2004)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Derrida_EHESS_(cropped).png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1930-07-15"
deathDate: "2004-10-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           66.13
  momentum:             0.4227212681638043
  historical:           25.761192
  currentAttention:     11.72400452915645
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
  - name: "Academics"
    slug: "academics"
  - name: "Academic"
    slug: "academic"
  - name: "Philosophy"
    slug: "philosophy"
  - name: "Literature"
    slug: "literature"
  - name: "France"
    slug: "france"
  - name: "Europe"
    slug: "europe"
  - name: "20th Century"
    slug: "20th-century"
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1104986/"
    handle:    "nm1104986"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/derrida"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida"
    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130631"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Jacques%20Derrida"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83_%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "جاك دريدا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida"
    title: "Jacques Derrida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%95_%E0%A6%A1%E0%A7%87%E0%A7%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BE"
    title: "জাক ডেৰিদা"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jak_Derrida"
    title: "Jak Derrida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B0%D0%BA_%D0%94%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B4%D0%B0"
    title: "Жак Дэрыда"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B0%D0%BA_%D0%94%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B4%D0%B0"
    title: "Жак Дэрыда"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B0%D0%BA_%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B0"
    title: "Жак Дерида"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%95_%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BE"
    title: "জাক দেরিদা"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida"
    title: "Jacques Derrida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida"
    title: "Jacques Derrida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida"
    title: "Jacques Derrida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida"
    title: "Jacques Derrida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida"
    title: "Jacques Derrida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%96%CE%B1%CE%BA_%CE%9D%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%AC"
    title: "Ζακ Ντεριντά"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida"
    title: "Jacques Derrida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida"
    title: "Jacques Derrida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida"
    title: "Jacques Derrida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida"
    title: "Jacques Derrida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%98%D8%A7%DA%A9_%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "ژاک دریدا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida"
    title: "Jacques Derrida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida"
    title: "Jacques Derrida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fa.wikiquote.org/wiki/%DA%98%D8%A7%DA%A9_%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/bf957c94-776f-449a-a4f7-2b37f7fd9a89"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Jackie Élie Derrida on 15 July 1930, he grew into a French philosopher who built deconstruction through close readings of Saussure's linguistics and Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology. Between 1967 and 1972 he published the works that made his name — Speech and Phenomena, Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference, Margins of Philosophy — texts that redrew debates in ontology, epistemology, ethics, and the philosophy of language. Over 40 books and hundreds of essays followed, spreading his approach across the humanities and social sciences, from anthropology to psychoanalysis, historiography to political theory. He became Professor in Humanities at UC Irvine for his final two decades, a well-known public figure whose abstruseness made him as controversial as he was influential. He died 9 October 2004, having shaped fields he never set out to touch.