Death of Jacques Derrida

international | arts and media | news report Monday October 11, 2004 13:45 by by

last friday in Paris from pancreatic cancer

The father of deconstruction
has turned to decomposition.

born in Algeria in El-Biar, in 1930, Derrida began studying philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1952, where he later taught from 1965 to 1984. From 1960 to 1964, Derrida taught at the Sorbonne in Paris. Since the early 1970s, he divided much of his time between Paris and the United States, where he taught at such universities as Johns Hopkins, Yale, and the University of California at Irvine.

Derrida's work and life focussed on language, and how multiple layers of meaning are built within the use of words which are forever changing.

read more at-
http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3729844.stm

his complete works are available online courtesy of Krapp's "last tapes" -
http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/jdind.html

RIP
rest- inactivity
in - prepostion
Peace - absence of war.