A public lecture to Hong Kong students by the acclaimed French philosopher Jacques Derrida drew an overwhelming response this week. There was standing room only in Li Koon Chun Hall in Chung Chi ...
Jacques Derrida, the influential French thinker and writer who inspired admiration, vilification and utter bewilderment as the founder of the intellectual movement known as deconstruction, has died.
Jacques Derrida, the world’s most famous philosopher, died of pancreatic cancer in a Paris hospital on October 8. He had long been shy of the spotlight. From 1962 to 1979 he refused to be photographed ...