An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida Salmon Peter
An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida Salmon Peter Philosopher, film star, father of "post truth"--the real story of Jacques DerridaWho is Jacques Derrida? For the far right, he is one of…
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An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida Salmon Peter
Philosopher, film star, father of "post truth"--the real story of Jacques DerridaWho is Jacques Derrida? For the far right, he is one of the architects of Cultural Marxism. For some, he is the originator of a relativist philosophy responsible for the contemporary crisis of truth.
In An Event, Perhaps, Peter Salmon presents this misunderstood and misappropriated figure as a deeply humane and urgent thinker for our times.Born in Algiers, the young Jackie was always an outsider. To his academic critics, he reduced French philosophy to "little more than an object of ridicule." For his fans, he is an intellectual rock star who ranged across literature, politics, and linguistics. Despite his best efforts, he found it difficult to establish himself among the Paris intellectual milieu of the 1960s.
However, in 1967, he changed the whole course of philosophy: outlining