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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David Owens on Duty
Kimberley Brownlee on Social Deprivation
Shelly Kagan on Speciesism
Susan James on Foucault and Knowledge
Larry Temkin on Transitivity
William B. Irvine on Living Stoically
Steven Lukes on Power
Theodore Zeldin on Philosophy and History
Jesse Prinz on Art and Emotion
Cassim Quassam on Conspiracy Theories
Tim Williamson on the Appeal of Relativism
Shaun Nichols on Death and the Self
Rebecca Roache on Swearing
Lisa Bortolotti on Irrationality
Jonathan Webber on Deceiving With Words
Simon Critchley on Suicide
Christine Korsgaard on the Status of Animals
Meira Levinson on the Aims of Education
Lucy Allais on Forgiveness
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