The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.” — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When I was in college, it was Jacques Derrida. Everyone was dropping quotes. I remember thinking that was important - and I… — Fernando Mastrangelo Copy Share Image
The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women's archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Woman is the opposite, the ‘other’ of man: she is non-man, defective man, assigned a chiefly negative value in relation to the… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Or, to put it another way, presuppositional apologetics--such as that developed by Francis Schaeffer, but also by Cornelius Van Til and, to… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Certain American uses of deconstruction, Derrida has observed, work to ensure ‘an institutional closure’ which serves the dominant political and economic interests… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Me and Kirby are very collaborative and it changes from film to film. The first project we worked on together, Derrida, we… — Amy Ziering Copy Share Image
“Post-structuralism is a reaction to structuralism and works against seeing language as a stable, closed system. It is a shift from seeing… — E. Smith Sleigh Copy Share Image
I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
“Derrida… labels as ‘metaphysical’ any such thought system which depends on an unassailable foundation, a first principle or unimpeachable ground upon which… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Lacan , Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I guess both Nabokov and Popper had, in different ways, immunized me against the fashion for French-influenced literary theory in the '70s,… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“With Derrida, you can hardly misread him, because he’s so obscure. Every time you say, "He says so and so," he always… — John R. Searle Copy Share Image
I'm not sure how far Derrida's later 'theological' interests are really rooted in post-structuralism or whether they don't rather reflect a kind… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
It was in reading Tristam Shandy that I noticed how it is primarily men who gravitate towards the game-playing self-reflexive style. There… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“So that to give a commentary on the text, such as we are attempting here, is to reinforce the illusion that a… — James N. Powell Copy Share Image
Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
