‘What can we say of Aristotle’s life? He was a philosopher. He was born. He thought. He died. All the rest is pure anecdote.” — Jacque Derrida Fast approaching a new language of documentary that ...

Derrida’s theory, she said, offered a way to perform serious intellectual work in the humanities while maintaining “that urgency of response to the abuses of power” that fed political engagement.

Jacques Derrida, the founder of “deconstructionism” who died recently in Paris, will be remembered as one of the most important philosophers and Jewish thinkers of the past century. Derrida’s impact ...