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Jacques Derrida

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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.


— Jacques Derrida


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The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.


— Jacques Derrida


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The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.


— Jacques Derrida


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These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.


— Jacques Derrida


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These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.


— Jacques Derrida


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We are all mediators, translators.


— Jacques Derrida


Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.


— Jacques Derrida


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To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.


— Jacques Derrida


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No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.


— Jacques Derrida


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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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