Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derridawas a French philosopher, born in Algeria. Derrida is best known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction, which he discussed in numerous texts, and developed in the context of phenomenology. He is one of the major figures associated with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy...
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth15 July 1930
language speak mathematician
No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
beauty happens
Beauty only happens once.
born said
Who ever said that one was born just once?
language speak my-own
I speak only one language, and it is not my own.
attitude cutting medical
The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts off the possibility of an essentially interminable questioning, that is, an effective and thus transforming questioning.
translators mediators
We are all mediators, translators.
science missing ontology
All sentences of the type 'deconstruction is X' or 'deconstruction is not X', a priori miss the point, which is to say that they are at least false. As you know, one of the principal things at stake in what is called in my texts 'deconstruction', is precisely the delimiting of ontology and above all of the third-person present indicative: S is P.
knowing speak seeing
One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says.
thinking traps acceptable
I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.
culture way
Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.
names mourning possibility
Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.
heart secret jew
I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts.
believe perception desire
Contrary to what phenomenology- which is always phenomenology of perception- has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes.
i-can can-do ifs
If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything