Jacques Derrida
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+ | Derrida was born in El Bair, Algiers then French Algeria, into a Jewish family. He spent his youth in El-Bair where he dreamed of becoming a professional football player but also read works of philosophers and writers such as Rousseau, Camus, Nietzsche and Gide. He began to think seriously about philosphy around 1948 and 1949, around the same time he moved to France where he stayed the rest of his live. |
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Jacques Derrida (15 July 1930 – 8 October 2004) was a French philosopher born in El-Bair, Algiers. He developed the critical technique known as deconstruction, which is a method of analysis that seeks to critique and destabilize apparently stable systems of meaning in discourse by illustration their contradictions, paradoxes and contingent nature.
Life
Derrida was born in El Bair, Algiers then French Algeria, into a Jewish family. He spent his youth in El-Bair where he dreamed of becoming a professional football player but also read works of philosophers and writers such as Rousseau, Camus, Nietzsche and Gide. He began to think seriously about philosphy around 1948 and 1949, around the same time he moved to France where he stayed the rest of his live.