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Annie
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Jacques Derrida dies at 74.

I didn't agree with about 95% of his philosophy, but I had a lot of respect for him. Anyone else familiar with his work?
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Katarain
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His name comes up all the time in my Contemporary Autobiography class. He's one of the theorists we've read.

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Yes. He was influential in many fields.
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Basically, (and this is very basically) he was the originator of decontructivism. The premise of his thought was that there are several meanings that can be taken from a piece of literature or art, and that they're not neccessarily those intended by the author.
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