Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida (born Jackie Élie Derrida; 1930–2004) was a French philosopher, known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction. He is one of the major figures associated with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy.

Literature

By Derrida

Arbitrary selection

• "Becoming Woman", trans. Barbara Harlow, in Semiotext(e) Vol. 3, No. 1: "Nietzsche’s Return", 1978, pp 128-137. Excerpted from Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles, 1976.
• Athens, Still Remains: The Photographs of Jean-François Bonhomme, trans. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas, Fordham University Press, New York, [1996], 2010.
• The Work of Mourning, ed. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas, Chicago & London: Chicago University Press, 2001.

On Joyce (and technology)

• Ulysse gramophone. Deux mots pour Joyce, Paris: Galilée, 1987, 142 pp. (in French). "Deux mots pour Joyce" was first given as a talk at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, in November 1982. "Ulysse gramophone" was first delivered as the opening address at the Ninth International James Joyce Symposium in Frankfurt am Main in 1984.
  • Ulysses Grammophon, Brinkmann & Bose, 1988. (in German)
  • "Two Words for Joyce", trans. Geoffrey Bennington, in Post- Structuralist Joyce: Essays from the French, eds. Derek Attridge and Daniel Ferrer, Cambridge University Press, 1984, pp 145-159; repr. in Derrida and Joyce: Texts and Contexts, eds. Andrew J. Mitchell and Sam Slote, SUNY Press, 2013, (Introduction).
  • "Ulysses Gramophone: Hear Say Yes In Joyce", trans. Tina Kendall, in Derrida, Acts of Literature, ed. Derek Attridge, Routledge, 1992, pp 253-309; trans. François Raffoul, in Derrida and Joyce: Texts and Contexts, eds. Andrew J. Mitchell and Sam Slote, SUNY Press, 2013.

On Derrida

• François Dosse, History of Structuralism, Vols. 1–2, 1991–
• François Cusset, French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States, 2003/2008