{"id":134,"date":"2004-10-10T13:03:37","date_gmt":"2004-10-10T13:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/10\/10\/one-of-the-major-figures-of-intellectual-life-of-our-time\/"},"modified":"2004-10-10T13:03:37","modified_gmt":"2004-10-10T13:03:37","slug":"one-of-the-major-figures-of-intellectual-life-of-our-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/10\/one-of-the-major-figures-of-intellectual-life-of-our-time\/","title":{"rendered":"“One of the major figures of intellectual life of our time”"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, farewell then, Jaques Derrida<\/a>, who has died aged 74<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The quote, from Jaques Chirac, is almost an understatement. Derrida’s ideas on phenomenology<\/a> and contributions to the “post-modernist<\/a>” and post-structuralist<\/a> movements (with the likes of Michel Foucault<\/a>, Roland Barthes<\/a>, Jaques Lacan<\/a> and Jean Hippolyte<\/a>) have caused thousands of students headaches for the last four decades, as he himself acknowledged<\/a>, but at the same time have helped to revolutionise the nature of criticism and analytical thought. Having lost Pierre Bourdieu<\/a> a couple of years ago, France’s place as philosophical capital of the world could well be under threat. Who of the late 1960s\/1970s French philosophical revolution is left?<\/p>\n

Read more on Derrida here<\/a> (including links to various articles of his online), pick up a summary of his most famous ideas on deconstruction<\/a> with the book of interviews Deconstruction in a Nutshell: Conversation with Jacques Derrida<\/a>, or read obituaries at The New York Times<\/a> (reg req), Le Monde<\/a> (in French), and The BBC<\/a> (nice and short…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, farewell then, Jaques Derrida, who has died aged 74. The quote, from Jaques Chirac, is almost an understatement. Derrida’s ideas on phenomenology and contributions to the “post-modernist” and post-structuralist movements (with the likes of Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Jaques … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}