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9 unusual facts about Jacques Derrida


Animal studies

Theorists interested in the role of animals in literature, culture, and continental philosophy also consider the late work of Jacques Derrida a driving force behind the rise of interest in animal studies in the humanities.

Apophatic theology

Derrida and Negative Theology, ed H. G Coward, SUNY 1992.

Briankle Chang

He is considered the first scholar to bring to bear the ideas of Jacques Derrida on the field of communication studies.

D/Generation

The main character is a courier making an emergency delivery by jetpack of an important package to one of Genoq's top researchers, Jean-Paul Derrida (a name likely inspired by the philosopher Jacques Derrida), and who is happily oblivious to the carnage until the lab's doors lock behind him.

Europeanism

The philosophers Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida were inspired to write an article for the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in which they claimed the birth of a 'European public sphere'.

Postmodern Christianity

Moreover, such alleged postmodern heavyweights as Jacques Derrida and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe have refused to operate under a so-called postmodern rubric, preferring instead to specifically embrace a single project stemming from the European Enlightenment and its precursors.

The style of thought owes a debt to Jacques Derrida, especially in light of his idea of a "weak force."

Songs to Remember

References to famous philosophers, another of Green's favourite subjects, recur throughout the album, most obviously on the track "Jacques Derrida", named after the Deconstructionist philosopher who Green eventually met in 1988.

Valerio Adami

In 1975, the philosopher Jacques Derrida devoted a long essay, "+R: Into the Bargain", to Adami's work, using an exhibition of Adami's drawings as a pretext to discuss the function of "the letter and the proper name in painting", with reference to "narration, technical reproduction, ideology, the phoneme, the biographeme, and politics".


Emerging church

Participants in the movement exhibit a particular concern for the effect of the modern reader's cultural context on the act of interpretation echoing the ideas of postmodern thinkers such as Jacques Derrida and Stanley Fish.

Fashionable Nonsense

In Jacques Derrida's response, "Sokal and Bricmont Aren't Serious," first published in Le Monde, Derrida writes that the Sokal hoax is rather "sad triste," not only because Alan Sokal's name is now linked primarily to a hoax, not to science, but also because the chance to reflect seriously on this issue has been ruined for a broad public forum that deserves better.

Gary A. Olson

In 1991, Olson began conducting scholarly interviews of internationally prominent intellectuals including anthropologist Clifford Geertz, linguist Noam Chomsky, deconstructionist Jacques Derrida, postmodern theorist Jean-François Lyotard, philosopher of science Sandra Harding, theorist and cultural critic Donna Haraway, political philosopher Ernesto Laclau, and feminist theorist bell hooks.

Hilary Lawson

Schooled in analytic philosophy, his approach increasingly diverged from the mainstream having more in common with the American philosopher Richard Rorty and the French philosopher Jacques Derrida.

International Association for Philosophy and Literature

Some recent keynote or plenary speakers have included: Rosi Braidotti, Jacques Derrida, Steve Dixon, Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Peter Greenaway, Sneja Gunew, Steven Holl, Dominique Janicaud, Stelarc, Slavoj Žižek

Jacket Full of Danger

The album's cover art is an illustrated photograph by American artist Galen Pehrson and was featured in ArtForum 10.6Vol-9UK The image depicts Green with a suite of illustrated characters, each character refers or symbolizes a social theorist, philosopher, or semiotician: Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, and most notable Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan engaged in a "dance".

Laurent Jiménez-Balaguer

Jiménez-Balaguer’s work shares certain core values intrinsic to the field of Cultural studies and the theoretical struggle of intellectuals such as Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Alexis Virginie Jimenez, Judith Butler.

Leslie Hill

He has written several influential books on French writers and philosophers including Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski and Jacques Derrida.

Néstor Braunstein

Braunstein recognizes the following authors as the main influences on his thought: Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Louis Althusser, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, Slavoj Žižek and Giorgio Agamben.

Subjectile

The Antonin Artaud Critical Reader, which includes texts by Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Susan Sontag.


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Songs to Remember

The cover artwork for each of the singles was a homage to the packaging of a luxury consumer item: Dunhill cigarettes for "The 'Sweetest Girl'", Dior's Eau Sauvage perfume for "Faithless", and Courvoisier cognac for "Asylums in Jerusalem"/"Jacques Derrida".