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Jacques Derrida
 
Date of birth: 15 July 1930
Date of death: 08 October 2004
Country Of Origin: Algeria
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    Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 – October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born France philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction. His voluminous work had a profound impact upon continental philosophy and literary theory. Derrida is often associated with post-structuralism and postmodernism, even though he never used the latter term and dissociated himself from it.
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" As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scen. "

Jacques Derrida
" Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution. "

Jacques Derrida
" Each time this identity announces itself, someone or something cries: Look out for the trap, you're caught. Take off, get free, disengage yourself. "

Jacques Derrida
" Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology. "

Jacques Derrida
" Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture. "

Jacques Derrida
" Failure meant a return to Algiers in a state of absolute precariousness, and I didn't want to go back to Algeria. "

Jacques Derrida
" I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles. "

Jacques Derrida
" I believe it is always a writer who is accused of being someone who is engaged in an explanation with language, the economy of language. "

Jacques Derrida
" I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap. "

Jacques Derrida
" I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner. "

Jacques Derrida
" I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior. "

Jacques Derrida
" I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned. "

Jacques Derrida
" I have tried to submit the singularity that is writing, signature, self-presentation, autobiographical engagement to the most rigorous-and necessary-philosophical questioning. "

Jacques Derrida
" I loved what Gide says about Proteus, I identified naively with him who identified, if that's possible, with Proteus. "

Jacques Derrida
" I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous. "

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