French Theorist Jacques Derrida Dies at 74
copycat - 11.10.2004 15:51
PARIS (Reuters) — French philosopher Jacques Derrida, the founder of the
school of deconstructionism, has died of cancer at the age of 74, France
Info radio said on Saturday. It said Algerian-born Derrida had died on
Friday of cancer of the pancreas.
Derrida, who divided his time between France and the United States,
argued that the traditional way we read texts makes a number of false
assumptions and that they have multiple meanings which even their author
may not have understood.
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