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"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." -- Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida () (15 July 1930 – 8 October 2004) was a French philosopher born in Algeria. He developed the critical technique known as deconstruction, and his work has been associated both with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy. His prolific output of more than 40 published books, together with essays and public speaking, has had a significant impact upon the humanities, particularly on literary theory and continental philosophy. His best known assertion with regard to his methodology is that "there is no outside-the-text."

Derrida was always uncomfortable with the popularity of the term "deconstruction" and the corresponding tendency to reduce his philosophical work to that particular label. In spite of his reservations, deconstruction has become associated with the attempt to expose and undermine the oppositions and paradoxes on which particular texts, philosophical and otherwise, are founded. He frequently called such paradoxes "binary oppositions." Derrida's strategy involved explicating the historical roots of philosophical ideas, questioning the so-called "metaphysics of presence" that he sees as having dominated philosophy since the ancient Greeks, careful textual analysis, and attempting to undermine and subvert the paradoxes themselves.

Derrida's work has had implications across many fields, including literature, architecture (in the form of deconstructivism), sociology, and cultural studies. Particularly in his later writings, he frequently addressed ethical and political themes, and his work influenced various activist and other political movements. His widespread influence made him a well-known cultural figure, while his approach to philosophy and the purported difficulty of his work also made him a figure of some controversy. His work has been seen as a challenge to the unquestioned assumptions of the Western philosophical tradition and Western culture as a whole.

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Total Books: 378
Antonin Artaud Drawings and Portraits
2019 - Antonin Artaud Drawings and Portraits [The MIT Press] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780262039987
ISBN-10: 0262039982
Genre: Arts & Photography
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Theory and Practice
2019 - Theory and Practice [The Seminars of Jacques Derrida] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780226572345
ISBN-10: 022657234X
Genre: Politics & Social Sciences
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Before the Law The Complete Text of Prjugs
2018 - Before the Law the Complete Text of Prjugs [Univocal] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781517905514
ISBN-10: 1517905516
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Politics & Social Sciences
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Advances
2018 - Advances [Univocal] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781517904265
ISBN-10: 1517904269
Genre: Politics & Social Sciences
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Artaud the Moma
2017 - Artaud the Moma [Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780231181679
ISBN-10: 0231181671
Genres: Arts & Photography, Politics & Social Sciences
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Archive Fever A Freudian Impression
2017 - Archive Fever a Freudian Impression [Religion and Postmodernism] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780226502359
ISBN-10: 022650235X
Genres: Self-Help, Politics & Social Sciences
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The Gift of Death Second Edition  Literature in Secret
2017 - The Gift of Death Second Edition Literature in Secret [Religion and Postmodernism] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780226502977
ISBN-10: 022650297X
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Politics & Social Sciences
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The Death Penalty Volume II
2017 - The Death Penalty Volume II [The Seminars of Jacques Derrida] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780226410821
ISBN-10: 022641082X
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Politics & Social Sciences
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The Beast and the Sovereign Volume II
2017 - The Beast and the Sovereign Volume II [The Seminars of Jacques Derrida] (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780226478531
ISBN-10: 022647853X
Genre: Politics & Social Sciences
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Heidegger Philosophy and Politics The Heidelberg Conference
Heidegger The Question of Being and History
2016 - Heidegger the Question of Being and History [The Seminars of Jacques Derrida] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780226355115
ISBN-10: 022635511X
Genre: Politics & Social Sciences
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Of Grammatology
2016 - Of Grammatology (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781421419954
ISBN-10: 1421419955
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Reference, Politics & Social Sciences
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Cinders
2014 - Cinders [Posthumanities] (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780816689538
ISBN-10: 0816689539
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For Strasbourg Conversations of Friendship and Philosophy
2014 - For Strasbourg Conversations of Friendship and Philosophy (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780823256488
ISBN-10: 0823256480
Genre: Politics & Social Sciences
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The Death Penalty Volume I
2013 - The Death Penalty Volume I [The Seminars of Jacques Derrida] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780226144320
ISBN-10: 0226144321
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Politics & Social Sciences
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Penser  ne pas voir
2013 - Penser Ne Pas Voir (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9782729120535
ISBN-10: 272912053X
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Signature Derrida
2013 - Signature Derrida [A Critical Inquiry Book] (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780226924540
ISBN-10: 0226924548
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Politics & Social Sciences
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Learning to Live Finally The Last Interview
The Beast and the Sovereign Volume I
2011 - The Beast and the Sovereign Volume I [The Seminars of Jacques Derrida] (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780226144290
ISBN-10: 0226144291
Genre: Nonfiction
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Gli occhi della lingua
2011 - Gli Occhi Della Lingua (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9788857506852
ISBN-10: 8857506851
Genre: Politics & Social Sciences
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Athens Still Remains The Photographs of JeanFranois Bonhomme
2010 - Athens Still Remains the Photographs of Jeanfranois Bonhomme (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780823232055
ISBN-10: 0823232050
Genre: Nonfiction
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2010 - Voice and Phenomenon Introduction to the Problem of the Sign in Husserl's Phenomenology [Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy] (Paperback)
2008 - Geneses Genealogies Genres and Genius the Secrets of the Archive [European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism] (Paperback)Hardcover
2008 - Memorias Para Paul De Man/ Memoirs for Paul De Man [Cla-De-Ma - Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
2008 - The Animal That Therefore I Am [Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Hardcover Unnumbered] (Hardcover)
2008 - Psyche Inventions of the Other Volume II [Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics] (Hardcover)Paperback
2007 - Psyche Inventions of the Other Volume I [Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics] (Hardcover)Paperback
2007 - Jacques Derrida [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
2006 - La Hospitalidad/ the Hospitality [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
2006 - H C for Life That Is to Say [Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics] (Hardcover)Paperback
2006 - The Politics of Friendship [Radical Thinkers] (Paperback)
2005 - Sovereignties in Question the Poetics of Paul Celan [Perspectives in Continental Philosophy] (Hardcover)
2005 - Paper Machine [Cultural Memory in the Present] (Hardcover)Paperback
2005 - Geschlecht [Heidegger] (Paperback)
2005 - Apprendre a VIvre Enfin [French Edition] (Paperback)
2005 - Rogues Two Essays on Reason [Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics] (Hardcover)
2005 - Deconstruction and Criticism [Question What You Thought Before] (Paperback)
2004 - Eyes of the University Right to Philosophy [Meridian Crossing Aesthetics] (Paperback)
2004 - Eyes of the University Right to Philosophy 2 [Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics] (Hardcover)
2004 - Questioning Judaism Interviews By Elisabeth Weber [Cultural Memory in the Present] (Hardcover)
2004 - Questioning Judaism Interviews [Cultural Memory in the Present] (Paperback)
2004 - Counterpath Traveling with Jacques Derrida [Cultural Memory in the Present] (Hardcover)
2004 - Margenes De La Filosofia / Margins of Philosophy [Teorema Serie Mayor - Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
2004 - For What Tomorrow a Dialogue [Cultural Memory in the Present] (Hardcover)Paperback
2004 - For What Tomorrow a Dialogue [Cultural Memory in the Present] (Paperback)Hardcover
2004 - Perdonare (Other)
2003 - Bleibe (Paperback)
2003 - Fichus (Paperback)
2002 - La Universidad Sin Condicion/ University Without Condition [Minima Trotta - Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
2002 - Veils [Cultural Memory in the Present] (Hardcover)Paperback
2002 - Palabra Instantaneas Filosoficas [Filosofia - Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
2002 - Without Alibi [Meridian Stanford, Calif.] (Hardcover)Paperback
2002 - Negotiations Interventions and Interviews 19712001 [Cultural Memory in the Present] (Hardcover)Paperback
2001 - On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness [Thinking in Action] (Other)
2001 - Writing and Difference [Routledge Classics Paperback] (Paperback)
2001 - Malde Arquivo Uma Impressao Freudiana [Portuguese Edition] (Paperback)
2000 - Dar La Muerte [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
2000 - Of Hospitality [Cultural Memory in the Present] (Hardcover)
1999 - Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas [Meridian Stanford, Calif.] (Hardcover)Paperback
1998 - Archive Fever a Freudian Impression [Religion and Postmodernism Series] (Paperback)Hardcover
1998 - Voiles (Paperback)
1998 - Monolingualism of the Other or the Prosthesis of Origin [Cultural Memory in the Present] (Hardcover)
1998 - The Derrida Reader Writing Performances [Stages Series, Vol 15] (Hardcover)
1998 - Resistances of Psychoanalysis [Meridian Stanford Univ Pr] (Hardcover)
1997 - Politics of Friendship [Phronesis Series] (Paperback)Hardcover
1996 - The Gift of Death [Religion and Postmodernism Series] (Paperback)Hardcover
1996 - Deconstruction in a Nutshell a Conversation with Jacques Derrida [Perspectives in Continental Philosophy, No. 1] (Hardcover)
1995 - On the Name [Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics] (Hardcover)Paperback
1995 - El Tiempo [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
1995 - Points Interviews 19741994 [Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics] (Hardcover)Paperback
1995 - El Lenguaje Y Las Instituciones Filosoficas/ the Language and the Philosophical Institutions [Pensamiento Contemporaneo/ Contemporary Thought - Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
1993 - Aporias [Meridian : Crossing Aesthetics Series] (Hardcover)
1993 - Die Archaeologie Des Frivolen [German Edition] (Hardcover)
1992 - The Other Heading Reflections on Today's Europe [Studies in Continental Thought] (Hardcover)
1990 - Glas (Paperback)Hardcover
1979 - Speech and Phenomena and Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs [Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology Existential Philosophy] (Hardcover)
1978 - De La Gramatologia [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
Signepongesignsponge [English and French Edition] (Paperback)
New Modernism [Art and Design Vol4 No 3/4] (Paperback)
El Porvenir De La Profesion O La Universidad Sin Condicion [gracias a las "Humanities", lo que podria tener lugar manana - Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
Responsibilities of Deconstruction [P.L.I.Warwick Journal of Philosophy] (Paperback)
Signeponge [Fiction & Cie] (Other)
La Carte Postale De Socrate a Freud Et Audela [La Philosophie en effet - French Edition] (Paperback)
De L'hospitalite [Petite bibliotheque des idees - French Edition] (Paperback)
Schibboleth Pour Paul Celan [Collection La Philosophie en effet - French Edition] (Paperback)
Ulysse Gramophone Deux Mots Pour Joyce [Collection La Philosophie en effet - French Edition] (Paperback)
De L'esprit Heidegger Et La Question [Collection La Philosophie en effet - French Edition] (Paperback)
Psyche Inventions De L'autre [Collection La Philosophie en effet - French Edition] (Paperback)
Du Droit a La Philosophie [Collection La Philosophie en effet - French Edition] (Hardcover)
Donner Le Temps [Collection La Philosophie en effet - French Edition] (Paperback)
Points De Suspension Entretiens [Collection La Philosophie en effet - French Edition] (Paperback)
Sauf Le Nom [Incises - French Edition] (Paperback)
Khra [Incises - French Edition] (Paperback)
Politiques De L'amitie Suivi De L'oreille De Heidegger [Collection La Philosophie en effet - French Edition] (Paperback)
Resistances De La Psychanalyse [Collection La philosophie en effet - French Edition] (Paperback)
Adieu a Emmanuel Levinas [Incises - French Edition] (Paperback)
Demeure Maurice Blanchot [Incises - French Edition] (Paperback)
Tourner Les Mots Au Bord D'un Film [Incises - French Edition] (Paperback)
Feu La Cendre [French Edition] (Paperback)
La Diseminacion [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
Espectros De Marx [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
The Mal De Archivo [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
Acabados [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
La Voz Y El Fenomeno [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
Como No Hablar [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)