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Top 10 Remarkable Facts about Jacques Derrida

Jacques was born on 15th July 1930 in a summer home in EL Biar, Algeria to Haim Aaron Prosper Charles Derrida. His father worked for the wine and spirits company Tachet as a traveling salesman. His father forced him to be an employee to an extent of waking early to do the accounts at the dining- room table.

He was one of the most significant French philosophers of the 20th century. He is remembered for developing a method of semiotic examination known as ‘deconstruction’. He is also one of the pioneers of post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy.

He has authored more than 40 books and has written hundreds of essays and public presentations throughout his career. He had a great influence on the humanities and social sciences including philosophy, literature, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, architecture, and political theory. He passed away in 200

1. He Left School for a Year

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The first day Jacques joined the school in 1942, the French administrators in Algeria executed anti-Semitic allocations by the Vichy administration and expelled Derrida from his Lycee (secondary school)

He left school for a year and participated in numerous football competitions. At that time he dreamt of becoming a professional football player. It was during his teenage years that he found great consolation in the works of Philosophers such as Nietzsche, Rousseau, and Gide an instrument of revolt against family and society.

Later he attended the Lycee Bugeaud in Algiers and 1949 he moved to Â鶹APP. From then he was a bright student and completed his master’s degree in Philosophy following which he received a scholarship to study at Harvard University from 1956 to 1957.

 2. His Service During the Algerian War

After his scholarship which he studied at Harvard University from 1956 – 1957, the Algerian War of Independence revolted between 1954 and 1962. He was called to teach English and French language to the soldiers’ children that were between 1957 and 1959.

 Following the war in 1960- 1964, he was appointed to teach philosophy at the Sorbonne, where he also worked as an assistant to Suzanne Bachelard.

3. How he Gained Fame Worldwide

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Jacques became linked with a group of intellectuals and philosophical theorists, they were known as ‘Tel Quel’. On October 1966, he presented a lecture at John Hopkins University which was titled ‘Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences. It was a great one that made him famous worldwide.

Also, in his three first books, he investigated and evaluated Western Philosophy. They were the first of his most important inputs in Philosophy and are considered some of the best works of Edmund Husserl. The three publications established his status and projected him to international prominence.

4. His First Years as an Author

In 1967 Jacques printed the first of his three books, ‘Writing and Difference’, in the same year he published ‘Speech and Phenomena and other essays on Husserl’s theory of signs and his best-known work of ‘Grammatology’.

After this, he didn’t stop. He produced several significant works such as ‘Glas’ in 1974. Six years later he produced ‘The Post Card; from Socrates to frued and Beyond’. At this time, he was one of the intelligentsias who signed the requisition ‘against the age of consent laws.

All of his writings were assembled in a book called ‘On the Right to Philosophy in 1990, the following year he published a book called ‘The Other Heading’ through which he deliberated the notion of individuality.

5. Awards and Achievements of Jacques

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Over his philosophical years, Jacques was bestowed his first honorary doctorate by Columbia University in 1980 and was awarded his State doctorate by submitting ten of his previously published books and defense of his intellectual projects to the University of Â鶹APP.

He has well been awarded by the University of Silesia, the University of Essex, the University of Athens, the new school of social research, and many others around the world. In the year 2001, he was presented the ‘Theodor Adorno Prize.

6. Criticism of Jacques Derrida

Criticism is a critical examination of fundamental concepts and part of philosophical practice in the western tradition. This has been carried out in the works of Derrida. His writing work is known for its extreme subtlety, meticulous attention to detail, and its tenacious pursuit of the logical implications of supposed features of texts.

However, his work has received opposition from other philosophers. In the year 1992, when he had been awarded by the University of Cambridge an honorary doctorate generated too much controversy that the university took the unusual step of putting the issue to a vote that Derrida won.

Some philosophers around the globe published letters of protest by claiming that Derrida’s writing was incomprehensible and that his major claims were either trivial or false. Despite the criticism, Derrida’s ideas remain a powerful force in Philosophy.

7. Family and Marriage Life

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Derrida was the third born in a family of five children. In 1957, immediately after graduating from Harvard University, he married Psychoanalyst, Marguerite Aucouturier. In 1963, his wife gave birth to their first son Pierre and in 1967, his second son Jean was born. In 1985, he fathered a son from Sylviana Agacinski

8. Universities he Served

Derrida got his first permanent teaching position at the ENS which he kept until 1984. In 1986, he became a professor of the Humanities at the University of California. He has been a visiting professor at several other major American and European Universities such as Johns Hopkins University, Yale University, New York University, Stony Brook University, and the New School for Social Research and European Graduate School.

9. Best of his Legacies

He is remembered for several things including, having left behind numerous books and essays which he presented over his career. He is remembered for developing a method of semiotic examination known as ‘deconstruction’. He was also one of the pioneers of post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy. He is also remembered as a professor at some universities.

10. He was a Co-Founder of the College International De Philosophe

In the year 1983, Jacques Derrida was a co-founder of the College international de Philosophe. Together with Francois Chatelet, established the institution as a place for philosophical research that could not be conducted at an educational institution.