Derrida, Jacques

Derrida, Jacques
(1930-2004)
   A French philosopher of Jewish descent well known for his 'philosophy of Derrida came to prominence deconstruction', in 1966, when he delivered a paper that advocated a deconstruction of the structuralist movement. Derrida then widened his target to include the general tendency in philosophy to construct systems of thought by privileging one term in a set of binary oppositions such as internal/external, universal/particular and good/evil. Through analysis Derrida sought to undermine this method by identifying how the marginalization of the excluded term is arbitrary and ineffectual. Underlying this challenge is Derrida's attack on 'logocentrism', the belief in a substantial word present in communication, and the 'metaphysics of presence' that it assumes. Derrida's unfruitful dialogue with John Searle illustrates the continued division between continental philosophy and analytical philosophy. Christian philosophers are deeply divided in their assessment of Derrida's work: some see his denial of the 'real presence' in various media (music, art, literature) as nihilistic, while others see Derrida's deconstruction as targeting not meaning or God, but rather our own inadequate grasp of these realities.
   Further reading: Caputo 1997; Derrida 1998; Derrida 2001; Rayment-Pickard 2003

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