Attacks on Jacques Derrida are nothing new: since the early 1980s, they’ve been a favorite sport of certain other philosophers in his own country, not to mention the American media. Even almost a ...

This essay revisits the question of inheritance, legacy and handing-down (das Erbe) as it is developed in Heidegger's Being and Time. A careful reading especially of paragraphs 6 and 72-74 allows us ...

Reviewed Work: Déconstruction et phénoménologie: Derrida en débat avec Husserl et Heidegger by DasturFrançoise It is precisely here (see note 49 on page 24, but also note 71 on page 28) that Dastur ...

There was a time in the 1990s when Christian theorists commonly referred to Derrida, Foucault, and their ilk as perceptive observers of the fallenness of the world. Granted, Paris was no Lourdes: one ...

Cologne’s Wallraf Richartz Museum has launched an impressive new exhibition entitled “Vincent van Gogh: Shoes,” built around a celebrated painting by the Dutch master from 1886. Some might wonder how ...

The controversy stirred up by the revelations in Evelyn Barish’s new biography of the literary scholar and “deconstructionist” Paul de Man (which Louis Menand recently discussed in the magazine) will, ...