When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Marked as it was by the Zeitgeist, Glas can also be read as a reply to Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, which had… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
“As Marguerite Derrida puts it: ‘I’ve always thought that it was mainly through his capacity for listening that Jacques could seduce women.” — Benoît Peeters 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
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
“One might even say that he had the last word. Derrida had criticized him for being too Christian. And Nancy replied to… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
“Between Derrida and women (who had been so often ignored by the Western philosophical tradition), an alliance was soon to be formed.… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
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
“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
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
“While Derrida had frequently bumped into him, since their first encounters at the home of Maurice de Gandillac at the beginning of… — Benoît Peeters 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
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
“The following day, Sylviane Agacinski commented on this declaration in her journal, which was published a few months later: I read in… — Benoît Peeters 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
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
“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
“Avital Ronell – a committed vegetarian – relates that one day, at a dinner with Chantal and René Major, she let one… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
“But for some readers, especially Derrida’s closest friends, the allusions to reality at the centre of the ‘Envois’ seemed barely tolerable. Pierre… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
“Derrida had an irresistible desire to seduce. And if he almost never spoke of his relationship to women, this was because his… — Benoît Peeters 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
“I once told a very serious writer/poet I knew about how obsessed I was with various women’s lives. I think I was… — Kate Zambreno 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
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'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
I was reading a lot of Jacques Derrida at the time, writing 'Beth.' He actually talked about zombies. — Jeff Baena Copy Share Image
“Derrida embraces the Heideggerian Paradigm’s new version of R5 Passive Knower. According to this view, we are not the autonomous source of… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“In Derrida’s words, Anti-Oedipus was a ‘very bad book (confused, full of contorted disclaimers, etc.) but an important symptomatic event, to judge… — Benoît Peeters 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
“Madeline began hearing people saying "Derrida". She heard them saying "Lyotard" and "Foucault" and "Deleuze" and "Baudrillard". That most of these people… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“The French philosopher Jacques Derrida likens writing fiction to a software code that operates in the hardware of your mind. Stringing together… — Chuck Palahniuk 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
“Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Derrida was particularly pained to see the story of his relationship with Sylviane exposed in two biographies of Jospin, long extracts from… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
“The plane that had taken off from Baltimore was caught in bad weather, which meant the Derridas missed their connection at Boston.… — Benoît Peeters 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
