Documentation:Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida is a philosopher who developed deconstruction, a critical outlook that concerns itself with assessing Western values and dialectics and asserting that texts live longer than their authors.[1]
Biography
Early Life
Derrida was born in 1930 to a Jewish family in the 1930s. He experienced some discrimination in his childhood, being forced out of at least two schools because he was a Jew.[2]
Academic Career
After being rejected twice, Derrida attended the École Normale Supérieure at age 19[3], where he met Louis Althusser and completed his master's degree in philosophy on Husserl. Following his education here, he received a grant for studies at Harvard University.[4]
From 1960 to 1964, Derrida taught philosophy at the Sorbonne. On the recommendation of Althusser and Jean Hyppolite, Derrida was given a permanent teaching position at the École Normale Supérieure.
In 1966, Derrida attended "Structure, SIgn, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences", where his work began to gain international prominence. At this colloquium, Derrida would also meet Jacques Lacan and Paul de Man.
Derrida received an honorary doctorate from Columbia in 1980, and then later received many more from other schools around the world. Four years after receiving his honorary doctorate from Columbia, he became full professor at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.
He taught at the University of California, Irvine, until shortly before his death.
References
- ↑ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction#Basic_philosophical_concerns
- ↑ www.iep.utm.edu/derrida/#H1
- ↑ www.iep.utm.edu/derrida/#H1
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida