Jacques Derrida
French philosopher (1930–2004)
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French philosopher who spent decades convincing people that language doesn't mean what they think it means. Deconstruction became his calling card; everyone else spent the rest of their careers either defending or dismantling it.
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Jacques Derrida was a 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 Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology. He is one of the major figures associated with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy although he distanced himself from post-structuralism and disavowed the word "postmodernity".
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