ON THE OCCASION of the 20th anniversary of the “Whither Marxism?” conference conceived by Stephen Cullenberg and Bernd Magnus and organized by the Center for Ideas and Society at the University of ...
Jacques Derrida, the thinker whose concept of “deconstruction” influenced at least two generations of scholarship in the humanities, died in Paris on Friday at the age of 74. The director of the ...
"Specter" is the first noun one reads in The Manifesto of the Communist Party. But that's just the beginning. Once you start to notice them, there is no counting all the ghosts, spirits, specters and ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
In 2010, writer and essayist Benoît Peeters published Derrida: A Biography, the philosopher's first biography. In an interview with Le Monde's book section, he discussed the influence and place of ...
“IN HIM France gave the world one of the major figures of the intellectual life of our times,” announced Jacques Chirac, the French president, on the day after Jacques Derrida's death. Mr Derrida ...