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.

Online texts

Essays, excerpts

• Excerpt from "Of Grammatology"
• Excerpt from "Archive Fever"
• "Speech and writing according to Hegel"
• Excerpt from "Spectres of Marx"
• Excerpt from the famous speech "Différance"
• "Letter to a Japanese Friend"
• "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences"
• Excerpt from "Signature, Event, Context"

Interviews

• "Excuse me, but I never said exactly so"
• Interview, in French, with Robert Maggiori
• Interview with Nikhil Padgaonkar on Love