‘What can we say of Aristotle’s life? He was a philosopher. He was born. He thought. He died. All the rest is pure anecdote.” — Jacque Derrida Fast approaching a new language of documentary that ...

Derrida’s theory, she said, offered a way to perform serious intellectual work in the humanities while maintaining “that urgency of response to the abuses of power” that fed political engagement.

The University of California has sued the family of Jacques Derrida, a pioneer in contemporary philosophy and literary theory who died in 2004. The lawsuit is the first public eruption of a bitter, ...