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Jacques Derrida: Works, Politics & Career

Jacques Derrida (/ˈdɛriːdɑː/; French: ; born Jackie Élie Derrida; 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was a French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he applied in some of his texts, and which he developed through close readings of the linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology. He is one…

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Jacques Derrida topic overview

The analysis highlights Works, Politics and Career as prominent areas in the source structure around Jacques Derrida.

Related topics
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Source areas
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Connected nodes
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Extracted relationships
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Concept neighborhoods
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Bridge connections
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What this topic covers Research coverage

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Philosophy · 81 topics
Career · 53 topics
Overview · 52 topics
Peers and contemporaries · 41 topics
Early life and education · 37 topics
Works cited · 22 topics
Politics · 20 topics
Other works · 18 topics
Criticism · 15 topics
Influences on Derrida · 14 topics
Introductory works · 8 topics
Criticism from other philosophers · 5 topics
Personal life and death · 5 topics

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Key facts & relationships

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Education
École Normale Supérieure (BA, MA, Dr. cand.) Harvard University University of Paris (DrE)
Born
Jackie Élie Derrida (1930-07-15)15 July 1930 El Biar, French Algeria
Children
3, including Pierre Alféri
Died
9 October 2004(2004-10-09) (aged 74) Paris, France
Doctoral advisor
Jean-Toussaint Desanti
Doctoral students
Catherine Malabou · Bernard Stiegler

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Overview

Early life and education

Career

Personal life and death

Philosophy

Politics

Influences on Derrida

Peers and contemporaries

Criticism

Criticism from other philosophers

Works cited

Introductory works

Other works

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How Jacques Derrida connects Entity context

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Jacques Derrida

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related to Other works · 262
Jacques Derrida → Agamben, Althusser, America, American Academy, An Ancient Quarrel Continued, Anglican Theological Review, Animus, Antibarbarus, Appositions, Archived, Atlanta, Atropos Press, August, Beardsworth, Belief, Bernard, Betraying Derrida, Between Kierkegaard, Beyond, Beyond Deconstruction
related to Works cited · 169
Jacques Derrida → Acts, Afterword, Am, Amy Ziering Kofman, An Exchange, An Interview, Andrew Brown, April, Archived, Attempt, August, Benoît, Biography, Bo, Books, Cambridge, Caputo, Chicago, Chicago Press, Cixous
related to External links · 48
Jacques Derrida → Archives, ArtsJean-Michel Rabaté, Austin, Bibliography, Books, California, Century, Congress Web Archives, Derrida, Eddie Yeghiayan, Ends, Entry, Guide, Humanities, Irvine, Jacques Derrida Lectures, Jacques Derrida Listserv Collection, Jacques Derrida Papers, Jacques Derrida Stanford Presidential, January
related to Introductory works · 47
Jacques Derrida → Acumen Press, Adleman, Africa, After, Cambridge University Press, Christopher, Christopher Johnson, Dan, Deconstricting Derridean Genre Theory, Derrida, Derrida/Searle, Descombes, Deutscher, Frank, Fredric, How, ISBN, Jameson, January, Language
related to Architectural thinkers · 30
Jacques Derrida → Bernard Tschumi, Chora, Das Geviert, Derrida, Derrida's, Ecology, Eisenman, El-Bizri, El-Bizri's, Erde, For, For Derrida, Greek, Göttlichen, Heidegger's, Himmel, Moreover, Nader El-Bizri, Parc, Paris
Notable ideas · 13
Jacques Derrida → arche-writing, Deconstruction, différance, free play, hauntology, invagination, iterability, khôra, metaphysics of presence, phallogocentrism, pharmakon, sous rature, trace
related to Further reading · 8
Jacques Derrida → An Event, Biography, ISBN, London, Perhaps, Peter, Salmon, Verso
Institutions · 7
Jacques Derrida → Collège international de philosophie, European Graduate School, University of California, Irvine, University of Paris VIII, Yale University, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, École Normale Supérieure
Notable students · 5
Jacques Derrida → Francis Fukuyama, Gabriel Rockhill, Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Luc Nancy, Sarah Kofman
School · 4
Jacques Derrida → Continental philosophy, Deconstruction, Post-structuralism (disavowed), Radical hermeneutics

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Important terminology

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Jacques Derrida relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 623 structured relationships around Jacques Derrida. Examples in this analysis include Jacques Derrida → Born → Jackie Élie Derrida (1930-07-15)15 July 1930 El Biar, French Algeria and Jacques Derrida → Children → 3, including Pierre Alféri. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

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Jacques DerridaBornJackie Élie Derrida (1930-07-15)15 July 1930 El Biar, French Algeria1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaChildren3, including Pierre Alféri1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaDied9 October 2004(2004-10-09) (aged 74) Paris, France1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaDoctoral advisorJean-Toussaint Desanti1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaDoctoral studentsCatherine Malabou1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaDoctoral studentsBernard Stiegler1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaEducationÉcole Normale Supérieure (BA, MA, Dr. cand.) Harvard University University of Paris (DrE)1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaEra20th-century philosophy1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaInstitutionsUniversity of Paris VIII1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaInstitutionsÉcole Normale Supérieure1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaInstitutionsÉcole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaInstitutionsCollège international de philosophie1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaInstitutionsEuropean Graduate School1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaInstitutionsUniversity of California, Irvine1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaInstitutionsYale University1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaNotable ideasDeconstruction1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaNotable ideasdifférance1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaNotable ideasphallogocentrism1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaNotable ideasfree play1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaNotable ideasarche-writing1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaNotable ideasmetaphysics of presence1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaNotable ideasinvagination1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaNotable ideaspharmakon1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaNotable ideastrace1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaNotable ideashauntology1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaNotable ideassous rature1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaNotable ideaskhôra1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaNotable ideasiterability1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaNotable studentsFrancis Fukuyama1.00infobox
Jacques DerridaNotable studentsSarah Kofman1.00infobox

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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Jacques Derrida, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Jacques Derrida with Philosophy. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

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Jacques DerridaPhilosophy · splits 303 ⟂ 82
Jacques DerridaCareer · splits 331 ⟂ 54
Jacques DerridaOverview · splits 332 ⟂ 53
Jacques DerridaPeers and contemporaries · splits 343 ⟂ 42
Jacques DerridaEarly life and education · splits 347 ⟂ 38
Jacques DerridaWorks cited · splits 362 ⟂ 23
Jacques DerridaPolitics · splits 364 ⟂ 21
Jacques DerridaOther works · splits 366 ⟂ 19
Jacques DerridaCriticism · splits 369 ⟂ 16
Jacques DerridaInfluences on Derrida · splits 370 ⟂ 15
Jacques DerridaIntroductory works · splits 376 ⟂ 9
Jacques DerridaPersonal life and death · splits 379 ⟂ 6
Jacques DerridaCriticism from other philosophers · splits 379 ⟂ 6

Map overview Semantic statistics

Jacques Derrida

Nodes385
Edges384
Triples623
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.005195
Components1

Source & methodology

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Source: Wikipedia — Jacques Derrida · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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