Jacques Derrida
Developed deconstruction to challenge binary oppositions in texts and thought.
Quotes by Jacques Derrida
The other is the secret.
Justice is the experience of the impossible.
I am always elsewhere.
The event of the other is irreducible.
Translation is another name for deconstruction.
The machine is the messiah.
Friendship is the anticipation of the other.
The university is a site of undecidability.
Art is the impossible task of mourning.
The parergon frames the ergon.
Literature is the right to say everything.
I let the other speak.
The aporia is the condition of possibility.
Death is the ultimate deconstruction.
In the end, I am nothing but a question mark.
Philosophy begins in wonder, but ends in silence.
The trace effaces itself.
To philosophize is to learn to die.
The gift is the impossible.