Essays on Jacques Derrida

Certainly I’ll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I’ve gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them. – Bill Gates...

The Concise Oxford Dictionary (p925) describes morality as: ‘1) Principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behaviour; a system of value and moral principles. 2) The extent to which an action is right or wrong’. What is morally right in...

For Once, Then, Something by Robert Frost Deconstruction is a technique of literary criticism which seeks to analyze a work as thoroughly as possible as it pertains to other works. It provides a way of playing with language and meaning that teases and delights (Dobie,...

What if everything around you had no essential meaning or root cause? What if every piece of text you have ever read had no structure at all? Well Jacques Derrida invented a theory that proves that our way of thinking is completely wrong. Jacques Derrida...

In recent French intellectual history Jacques Derrida was among the most popular, controversial but also knowledgeable figures. He pioneered a way of philosophy to which he called Deconstruction, that radically changed our comprehension of several academic disciplines, particularly literary studies. Derrida was born in El Biar,...

This essay will be addressing Jacques Derrida’s concepts on the ‘trait’ of drawing. Jacques Derrida explores issues of the faculties of sight, destituteness of vision, self-representation, and their relation to the draftsman’s drawing and sketching, while offering in depth readings of a vast collection of...

Introduction The advent of critical theory in the post war period, which comprised a series of waves that included various complex disciplines like linguistics, literary criticism, psychoanalytic criticism, structuralism, post structuralism, etc. proved hostile to the liberal humanist consensus which reigned the realm of criticism...

‘What is deconstruction? Nothing, of course’ within Jacques Derrida Letter to a Japanese friend. For Jacques Derrida, ‘deconstruction doesn’t consist in a set of theorems, axioms, tools, rules, techniques, methods’ and language itself is unable to disclose meaning; alternatively, an individual’s understanding of a text...

This essay will be examining the extent to which Jacque Derrida’s studies in the field of philosophy inspired the work of Belgian fashion designer Martin Margiela. While Derrida’s work appears on the surface to be an analysis of grammatology, the scientific study of writing, the...