Quotes About Derrida

Derrida believes that the "triumph" of capitalism in the West has only served to highlight its own failures, as human suffering continues and environmental catastrophe appears inevitable. Western economic systems have only exacerbated the plagues of underemployment, foreign debt, arms trade, and inter-ethnic violence.4

Secondly, is there "something" to be defined or translated? Derrida resisted the suggestion that there is a concept of deconstruction, simply present to the word, outside of the word's inscription in sentences and phrases determined by the undecidables. There's no such concept simply to pass over into other words, other languages.

Unformed, monstrous, and perhaps unidentifiable, deconstruction has moved virally through fields beyond philosophy and theory. Derrida advanced its progress in architecture, art, politics and law. And especially, in literature…

I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I know that that offends other philosophers; they think he's not taking things seriously, but he comes up with some marvellous puns. Why shouldn't you have a bit of fun while dealing with the deepest issues of the mind?

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction

I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'

I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.

Derrida was particularly pained to see the story of his relationship with Sylviane exposed in two biographies of Jospin, long extracts from which were published in the press: one by Serge Raffy, the other by Claude Askolovitch. Derrida could not stand his image starting to resemble the most conventional soap opera.

The following day, Sylviane Agacinski commented on this declaration in her journal, which was published a few months later: I read in Libération that Jacques Derrida did not vote in the first round as he was 'in a bad mood with all the candidates'. So it's a question of mood, yet again!

In Derrida's words, Anti-Oedipus was a 'very bad book (confused, full of contorted disclaimers, etc.) but an important symptomatic event, to judge from the demand to which it is clearly meant to supply and the way it has been welcomed by a very broad and dubious sector of opinion'.29

Between Derrida and women (who had been so often ignored by the Western philosophical tradition), an alliance was soon to be formed. A personal factor probably played a part in this process.

threw in quotes he attributed to Derrida and Heidegger for good measure, which he always does when he can't handle a tricky situation

One might even say that he had the last word. Derrida had criticized him for being too Christian. And Nancy replied to Derrida that he was too rabbinic.

Derrida is convinced: the 'Enlightenment to come' should take the logic of the unconscious into account. This involves, for example, answering a question that in his view is essential and yet rarely asked: 'Why does psychoanalysis never take root in the vast territory of Arabo-Islamic culture?'11 All these questions would seem even more urgent in the wake of 11 September the following year.

Marked as it was by the Zeitgeist, Glas can also be read as a reply to Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus, which had so irritated Derrida.

Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself easily to parody: 'What is it, to speak? How can I even speak of this? Who is this I who speaks of speaking?

I was reading a lot of Jacques Derrida at the time, writing 'Beth.' He actually talked about zombies.

The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean.

What is certain is that I am not a Marxist, as someone said a long time ago, let us recall, in a witticism reported by Engels. Must we still cite Marx as an authority in order to say "I am not a Marxist"?

how to justify . . . the decision which subordinates a reflection on the sign to a logic?

to what Derrida, following Husserl, calls "the relation to the object" [84])

Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the tradition of a certain Marxism, in a certain spirit of Marxism

The French philosopher Jacques Derrida likens writing fiction to a software code that operates in the hardware of your mind. Stringing together separate macros that, combined, will create a reaction.