#97 Overall Influence

Jacques Derrida

French philosopher

About

Why is this person notable and influential?

Jacques Derrida was an Algerian-born French philosopher best known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction, which he discussed in numerous texts, and developed in the context of phenomenology. He is one of the major figures associated with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy.

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Schools

What schools is this person affiliated with?

University of California, Irvine

Public research university in Irvine, California, United States

Harvard University

Private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

French higher education institution

Notable Works

What contributions to academia has this person made?

Glas
Writing and Difference
Echographies of Television
The dissemination
Specters of Marx
Archive Fever
The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond
The Truth in Painting
The Rhetoric of Drugs
Right to Philosophy
The Animal That Therefore I Am
Speech and Phenomena
Acts of Literature
Philosophy in a Time of Terror
Positions
Points...: Interviews, 1974–1994
Limited Inc
Of Grammatology

Influence Rankings by Discipline

How’s this person influential?

#18 World Rank

Philosophy

#88 World Rank

Literature