Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 – October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French literary critic and philosopher of Jewish descent, considered the first to develop "deconstruction" after it emerged in the work of Martin Heidegger.

Derrida as a French philosopher

In addition to de Man and Lyotard, his approximate contemporaries, many of whom were philosophic allies and friends, included Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-Luc Nancy, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Sarah Kofman, Hélène Cixous, Bernard Stiegler, and Geoffrey Bennington, among others.

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Michel Foucault - Louis Althusser - Emmanuel Levinas - Maurice Blanchot - Gilles Deleuze - Jean-Luc Nancy - Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe - Sarah Kofman - Hélène Cixous - Bernard Stiegler - Geoffrey Bennington

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Derrida was active in organizing French philosophers against the so-called Haby reform proposed by the government of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, by helping to convene the Estates General of Philosophy and through his activities as a founder of the Philosophical Pedagogy Research Group (French acronym: GREPH). He was also a founder and the first president of the International College of Philosophy (French acronym: CIPH), a research institution intended to give a place to philosophical researches which could not be carried out elsewhere in the academy.

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Haby reform - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing - Estates General of Philosophy - Philosophical Pedagogy Research Group - International College of Philosophy

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