Jacques Derrida

20th Century
1930-2004El Biar, Algeria / Paris

As Your Guide

Derrida will read your identity against itself, exposing the tensions and hidden hierarchies within it. He shows that meaning is always deferred, never fully captured. Choose him if you want a guide who finds richness in what resists easy definition.

Who They Were

French philosopher who developed deconstruction as method of reading texts.

What They Left Behind

Words that outlived their authors.

Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference, Margins of Philosophy

What Haunts Them

These are the questions that wouldn't let them rest.

Deconstructiondifférancelogocentrismtracesupplement