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Jacques Derrida

1930 - 2004

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Jacques Derrida (; French: [ʒak dɛʁida]; born Jackie Élie Derrida; 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was a French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in a number of his texts, and which was developed through close readings of the linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Derrida has received more than 4,098,977 page views. His biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). Jacques Derrida is the 103rd most popular philosopher (up from 104th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Algeria (up from 6th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Algerian Philosopher.

Jacques Derrida is most famous for his deconstruction of the Western philosophical tradition.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Jacques Derrida ranks 103 out of 1,267. Before him are Jeremy Bentham, George Gurdjieff, Roger Bacon, Anaximenes of Miletus, Al-Tabari, and Aristippus. After him are Roland Barthes, Meister Eckhart, Zhu Xi, Emil Cioran, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and Rudolf Christoph Eucken.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Jacques Derrida ranks 10. Before him are Michael Collins, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, Helmut Kohl, Warren Buffett, Pierre Bourdieu, and George Soros. After him are Ray Charles, Jean-Luc Godard, Mobutu Sese Seko, Hafez al-Assad, Baudouin of Belgium, and Steve McQueen. Among people deceased in 2004, Jacques Derrida ranks 5. Before him are Yasser Arafat, Ronald Reagan, Marlon Brando, and Ahmed Yassin. After him are Ray Charles, Juliana of the Netherlands, Francis Crick, Françoise Sagan, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Czesław Miłosz, and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Jacques Derrida ranks 5 out of 213. Before him are Augustine of Hippo (354), Albert Camus (1913), Apuleius (125), and Tariq ibn Ziyad (670). After him are Yves Saint Laurent (1936), Macrinus (164), Saint Monica (332), Louis Althusser (1918), Jugurtha (-160), Ahmed Ben Bella (1916), and Emir Abdelkader (1808).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Algeria

Among philosophers born in Algeria, Jacques Derrida ranks 2. Before him are Augustine of Hippo (354). After him are Louis Althusser (1918), Martianus Capella (360), Jacques Rancière (1940), Priscian (500), Émile Boirac (1851), Marcus Cornelius Fronto (100), and Catherine Malabou (1959).

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