Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida

male, deceased (2004)
Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 - October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction. His voluminous...
Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger

male, deceased (1976)
Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 - May 26, 1976) (pronounced) was a highly influential German philosopher. His best known work is "Being and...
Jean-Luc Nancy

Jean-Luc Nancy

male, 69 years old
Jean-Luc Nancy is a French philosopher. His first introduction to philosophy was in his youth in the Catholic environment of Bergerac. It is...

Jean-François Lyotard

male, deceased (1998)
Jean-François Lyotard (pronounced) was a French philosopher and literary theorist. He is well-known for his articulation of Postmodernism after t...
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

female, 67 years old
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born February 24 1942) is a literary critic and theorist. She is best-known for the article "Can the Subaltern Speak?",...
J. Hillis Miller

J. Hillis Miller

male, 81 years old
J. Hillis Miller is an American literary critic who has been heavily influenced by—and who has heavily influenced—deconstruction.
John D. Caputo

John D. Caputo

male, 69 years old
John D. Caputo (born October 26 1940) is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Humanities at Syracuse University and the founder of weak theology. Much...
Simon Critchley

Simon Critchley

male, 49 years old
Simon Critchley (born February 27, 1960) is an influential British philosopher, working in continental philosophy, history of philosophy,...

Christopher Norris

male, 62 years old
Christopher (Charles) Norris (born November 6, 1947) is a British literary critic and theorist.
Hélène Cixous

Hélène Cixous

female, 72 years old
Hélène Cixous, is a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician. Hélène Cixous was born in O...