Pre-lecture Seminar — Thursday, October 7, 1999, 3:30 pm, HU 354
Post-lecture Seminar — Tuesday, October 12, 1999, 3:30 pm, HU 354
Pre-lecture Seminar — Thursday, October 7, 1999, 3:30 pm, HU 354
Post-lecture Seminar — Tuesday, October 12, 1999, 3:30 pm, HU 354
acques Derrida has been described as the world's most famous living philosopher and the most influential thinker of our time. His strategies of analysis, known as "Deconstruction," have been applied to literature, linguistics, philosophy, law, and architecture. Deconstructive readings challenge the idea that a text has an unchanging, unified meaning. Recent work on politics and ethics has emphasized how those critiques also give deconstruction a strongly affirmative dimension.
He has taught at such universitites as Johns Hopkins, Yale, and the University of California at Irvine. He is the author of over 60 works, including: Of Grammatology (1967), Glas (1974), The Truth in Painting (1978), The Post Card (1980), Signsponge (1984), Of Spirit (1987), "Circumfession" (1991), The Gift of Death (1992), Specters of Marx (1993), Aporias (1996).
The Departments of History, Philosophy, Geography, Anthropology, Communication, Sociology, and the NYS Writers Institute
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