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Jacques Derrida

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I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.


— Jacques Derrida


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In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays.


— Jacques Derrida


#great number #implicit #level #number #philosophy

Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.


— Jacques Derrida


#cannot #chest #cross #discomfort #i

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.


— Jacques Derrida


#decides #gaze #like #look #moment

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.


— Jacques Derrida


#dominant #even #first #get #languages

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.


— Jacques Derrida


#carries #discourse #even #every #methodology

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.


— Jacques Derrida


#desire #i #i do #i think #idioms

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.


— Jacques Derrida


#also #bad #even #i #into

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.


— Jacques Derrida


#because #carrying #competent #conviction #eccentric

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.


— Jacques Derrida


#already #begun #certain #dream #dreamed






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Derrida will prefer to follow the more "fruitful paths (formalization)" of a general semiotics without falling in what he considered "a hierarchizing teleology" privileging linguistics and speak of 'mark' rather than of language not as something restricted to mankind but as prelinguistic as the pure possibility of language working every where there is a relation to something else. And instead of thinking that we are living at the end of writing I think that in another sense we are living in the extension – the overwhelming extension – of writing. Derrida once explained that this assertion "which for some has become a sort of slogan in general so badly understood of deconstruction (.

His work influenced various activists and political movements. Particularly in his later writings he frequently addressed ethical and political themes. : /ʒɑːk ˈdɛrɨdə/; French: [ʒak dɛʁida]; July 15 1930 – October 9 2004) was a French philosopher born in French Algeria.

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