Jacques Derrida

"If ,­ there is a tendency in all Western democracies no longer to respect the professional politician or even the party member as such, it is no longer only because of some personal insufficiency, som…"

"A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its law and its…"

"The end of man is announced to thought from the vantage of the end of man . Man is that which is in relation to his end, in the fundamentally equivocal sense of the word. Since always."

"What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance imposes itself only within a context which is extremely vast, old, firmly established, or rooted in a network of conventions … and yet which still…"

"This book, admirable in so many respects, power in its break and style, is even more intimidating for me in that, having formely had the good fortune to study under Michel Foucault, I retain the consc…"

"It has no sense and cannot just unless it comes to terms with death.Mine as that of the other. Between life and death, then, this is indeed the place of a sententious injunction that always feigns to …"

"At the end of Being and Nothingness, ... Being in-itself and Being for-itself were of Being; and this totality of beings, in which they were effected, itself was linked up to itself, relating and appe…"

"There is no Animal in the general singular, separated from man by a single, indivisible limit. We have to envisage the existence of “living creatures,” whose plurality cannot be assembled within the s…"