Jacques Derrida
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French philosopher and critic (born in Algeria); exponent of deconstructionism (1930-2004)
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Dispute with John Searle main In the early 1970s, Searle had a brief exchange with Jacques Derrida regarding speech-act theory.
It seemingly remains an open question whether major "Continental" figures such as the late Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, or Jacques Derrida should be included.
Jacques Derrida, "'Genesis' and 'Structure' and Phenomenology," in Writing and Difference (London: Routledge, 1978), paper originally delivered in 1959 at Cerisy-la-Salle, and originally published in Gandillac, Goldmann & Piaget (eds.
Derrida discontinued his involvement with the movement after the publication of his collaborative project with architect Peter Eisenmann in Chora L Works: Jacques Derrida and Peter Eisenman.
In a 1966 lecture " Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences ", Jacques Derrida presented a thesis on an apparent rupture in intellectual life.
Jacques Derrida describes this in the following terms: "We can see then that Dasein, though not man, is nevertheless nothing other than man."