Jacques Derrida was a controversial philosopher whose writing could be fiendishly difficult to read. Nevertheless he had many followers. Here Pete Salmon, author of a recent biography of Derrida, manages to give a clear account of what Derrida meant by deconstruction.
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Stephen Mulhall on Film as Philosophy
Richard Norman on Humanism
Richard Bourke on Edmund Burke on Politics
Angie Hobbs on Plato on War
Barry Smith on Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy
Mark Vernon on Friendship
G.A. Cohen on Inequality of Wealth
Barry Stroud on Scepticism
Julian Baggini on Thought Experiments
Susan James on Spinoza on the Passions
Henry Hardy on Isaiah Berlin's Pluralism
Myles Burnyeat on Aristotle on Happiness
Alain de Botton on Philosophy Within and Outside the Academy
Angie Hobbs on Plato on Erotic Love
Stewart Sutherland on Hume on Design
Onora O'Neill on Medical Consent
Quentin Skinner on Hobbes on the State
Anthony Kenny on his New History of Philosophy
Tim Crane on Mind and Body
Jonathan Ree on Philosophy as an Art
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