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Jacques Derrida speaking about
Forgiveness in his
Paris seminar "A
Critique of Psychoanalysis", a reading focusing on texts from
Gilles Deleuze.
Public open video lecture with students of the
European Graduate School EGS,
Media and
Communication Studies department program,
Saas-Fee, Switzerland,
Europe,
France, 2004
Jacques Derrida (born July 15,
1930 --
October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born
French philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction. His voluminous work had a profound impact upon continental philosophy,
French philosophy, and literary theory.
Derrida taught philosophy at the
Sorbonne, and from 1964 to
1984 at the
École Normale Superieure. He completed his Thèse d'État in
1980; the work was subsequently published in
English translation as "
The Time of a
Thesis: Punctuations".
Beginning with his 1966 lecture at
Johns Hopkins University, at which he presented his essay "
Structure, Sign, and Play in the
Discourse of the
Human Sciences" (see below), his work assumed international prominence.In 1967 Derrida published his first three books —
Writing and Difference,
Speech and Phenomena, and
Of Grammatology. Until his death Derrida was director of studies at the
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. With
François Châtelet and others, he co-founded the
Collège international de philosophie (CIPH) in
1983, a research institution intended to give a place to philosophical research and lectures which could not be carried out elsewhere in the academy. He was elected as its first president.
Derrida held a series of visiting and permanent positions. In
1986 he became
Professor of the
Humanities at the
University of California, Irvine (which now has a major archive of his manuscripts). He was a regular visiting professor at several other major
American universities, including Johns Hopkins University,
Yale University, and
New York University, and
The New School for
Social Research. Derrida was a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received the
2001 Adorno-Preis from the
University of Frankfurt. He was awarded honorary doctorates by
Cambridge University (after a great deal of controversy),
Columbia University, The New School for Social Research, the
University of Essex,
University of Leuven, and
Williams College. In
2003, Derrida was diagnosed with aggressive pancreatic cancer, which reduced his speaking and traveling engagements. He died in a
Parisian hospital on the evening of Friday, October 8, 2004.
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