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Social Sciences and Humanities
France
2023

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
109
Citations
128354
World Ranking
52
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in France Leader Award

Overview

Jacques Derrida was affiliated with the École Normale Supérieure in France. Their research primarily focused on the fields of Arts and Humanities, with additional work in Social Sciences. The subfields covered included Philosophy, Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Sociology and Political Science, Literature and Literary Theory, and Clinical Psychology.

The main topics of Derrida's work encompassed Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism; Visual Culture and Art Theory; Photography and Visual Culture; Samuel Beckett and Modernism; Italian Fascism and Post-war Society; Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy; and Philosophy and Historical Thought.

Derrida published several papers across various venues in the recent years. These included:

  • La carte postale, 2020, Sigila
  • Signature Événement Contexte, 2021, Korean Association of Cultural Studies
  • Christianity and Secularization, 2020, Critical Inquiry
  • To Give-Time (Sixth Session), 2024, Derrida Today
  • Toca - el nombre, 2020, DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)

Frequent co-authors featured Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Samuel Beckett, Theodor W. Adorno, and Maurice Blanchot.

Derrida's work was often published in venues such as Derrida Today, Oxford Literary Review, Sigila, Critical Inquiry, and the Korean Association of Cultural Studies.

Their book publications were associated with several academic presses. Notably, Fordham University Press eBooks published multiple titles including different versions of Deconstruction in a Nutshell (2020), Athens, Still Remains (2022), and For Strasbourg (2020). Edinburgh University Press issued Thinking What Comes, Volume 1 and Thinking What Comes, 2 both in 2024. Stanford University Press eBooks published Copy, Archive, Signature (2020). Additional book titles appeared through Literalität und Liminalität and eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Writing and Difference

    Jacques Derrida;Alan Bass

  • Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression

    Jacques Derrida;Eric Prenowitz

  • Specters of Marx : The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International

    Jacques Derrida;Peggy Kamuf;Bernd Magnus;Stephen Cullenberg

  • Margins of philosophy

    Jacques Derrida

  • Speech and Phenomena: And Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs

    Jacques Derrida;David B. Allison;Newton Garver

  • L'Écriture et la différence

    Jacques Derrida

  • Aporias : dying--awaiting (one another at) the "limits of truth" (mourir--s'attendre aux "limites de la vérité")

    Jacques Derrida;Thomas Dutoit

  • La escritura y la diferencia

    Jacques Derrida

  • Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences

    Jacques Derrida

  • On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness

    Jacques Derrida

  • The Gift of Death

    Jacques Derrida;David Wills

  • Politics of Friendship

    Jacques Derrida;George Collins

  • The Law of Genre

    Jacques Derrida;Avital Ronell

  • The Animal That Therefore I Am

    Jacques Derrida

  • The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond

    Jacques Derrida;Alan Bass

  • Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida

    Jürgen Habermas;Jacques Derrida;Giovanna Borradori

  • Márgenes de la filosofía

    Jacques Derrida;Carmen González Marín

  • Die Schrift und die Differenz

    Jacques Derrida;Rodolphe Gasché

  • Faith and knowledge: The two sources of ‘religion’at the limits of reason alone

    Jacques Derrida

  • Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question

    Jacques Derrida

Frequent Co-Authors

Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas Goethe University Frankfurt
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer Heidelberg University
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Columbia University
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud University of Vienna
Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes Université Paris Cité
Richard Kearney
Richard Kearney Boston College
Jonathan Culler
Jonathan Culler Cornell University
Edward W. Said
Edward W. Said Columbia University
Terry K. Smith
Terry K. Smith University of St Andrews
Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty Stanford University

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