Biography:

Born to Sephardi Jewish parents in French-governed Algeria, Jackie Élie Derrida is one of the major figures associated with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy. He is best known for developing the form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction. Throughout his career, Derrida published more than 40 books, along with hundreds of essays and public presentations. His work continues to retain major academic influence throughout the US, continental Europe, South America, and countries where continental philosophy has been predominant. In his later writings, Derrida addressed ethical and political themes in his work, some of which influenced various activists and political movements in his time. In June 1957, he married the psychoanalyst Marguerite Aucouturier in Boston. Derrida was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003, which reduced the speaking and travelling engagements he frequented. He died during surgery in a hospital in Paris in the early hours of October 9th, 2004.

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Notable Publications:

• Edmund Husserl’s Origin of Geometry: An Introduction (1962)
• Of Grammatology (1967)
• Speech and Phenomena (1967)
• Margins of Philosophy (1972)
• The Post Card (1980)
• Limited Inc (1988)
• Acts of Literature (1991)
• The Gift of Death (1992)
• Specters of Marx (1993)
• Archive Fever (1995)
• The Work of Mourning (2001)

Notable Awards:

Derrida received honorary doctorates from the University of Cambridge, Columbia University, the New School for Social Research, the University of Essex, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the University of Silesia, the University of Coimbra, the University of Athens, and many others around the world.