List of thinkers influenced by deconstruction

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This is a list of notable thinkers that have been influenced by deconstruction.

Contents:	Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

The thinkers included in this list are published and satisfy at least one of the three following additional criteria: he or she has

• written about deconstruction;
• used uniquely deconstructive concepts in a published work; or
• has stated outright that deconstruction has influenced his or her thinking.

[edit] A

• Gil Anidjar: Anidjar is Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. Anidjar wrote the introduction to Derrida's Acts of Religion and has stated that deconstruction influenced his book The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy.^[1]

[edit] B

• Jack Balkin: Balkin is the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School and a renowned critical legal theorist. On his blog, Balkin said that deconstruction influenced his intellectual life.^[2]
• Geoffrey Bennington: Bennington is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emory University, as well as a member of the International College of Philosophy. He is a literary critic and philosopher, best known as an expert on deconstruction and the works of Jacques Derrida and Jean-François Lyotard. He has translated many of Derrida's works into English.^[3] Bennington co-wrote the book Jacques Derrida with Derrida.^[4]
• Robert Bernasconi: Bernasconi is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. Bernasconi has written extensively on Heidegger, and has also written on Gadamer, Levinas, and Arendt, among others, recently pursuing an interest in race and racism. He has acknowledged and discussed the enormous importance of Derrida's contribution to the study of Heidegger.^[5]
• Homi K. Bhabha: Bhabha is a postcolonial theorist, currently teaching at Harvard University, where he is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language. Bhabha brings together the insights of deconstruction and psychoanalysis in his investigations of social subordination.^[6]
• Harold Bloom: Bloom is the Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English and American Literature at New York University. In 1979, Bloom contributed to the influential Deconstruction and Criticism,^[7] a foundational text for the Yale School of deconstruction. Later, in a 1983 interview with Robert Moynihan, Bloom said, "What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology...There is no escape, there is simply the given, and there is nothing that we can do."^[8] In accordance, Slavoj Zizek has identified the mid-to-late 1980's as the period when Derrida's deconstruction shifted from a radical negative theology to a Kantian idealism.^[9] In 1989, Bloom eschewed any identification with the Yale School's technical, methodological approach to literary criticism.^[10] He stated that "there is no method except yourself"^[11] and observed that deconstruction as a mode of thought is best understood as unique to Derrida. In a 2003 interview, Bloom recalled that in his past he found himself "fighting" deconstructionists.^[12] In the same interview, he stated that the deconstructionists were his friends and that what interests him in language is the Absolute, a notion he shares with Yale School deconstructionists and the negative theology of kabbalists.^[13]
• Judith Butler: Butler is a prominent American post-structuralist philosopher and has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy and ethics. She is Maxine Elliot professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Many of Butler's works have taken up deconstructive themes.^[14]

[edit] C

• John D. Caputo: Caputo is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Humanities at Syracuse University the founder of weak theology. Much of Caputo's work focuses on hermeneutics, phenomenology, deconstruction, and theology.^[15]
• Stanley Cavell: Cavell is an American philosopher. He is the Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. Cavell has written on Derrida's work.^[16]
• Hélène Cixous: Cixous is a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician.^[17]
• Drucilla Cornell: Cornell is a professor of political science, women's studies, and comparative literature at Rutgers University.^[18]
• Simon Critchley: Critchley teaches philosophy at the New School for Social Research. Critchley has written a number of books on Derrida, including The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas^[19] and Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida, Levinas, and Contemporary French Thought.^[20] Critchley has said that Derrida was a "brilliant reader" and that it is imperitive to follow his example.^[21]
• Jonathan Culler: Culler is Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. Culler has written a number of books about deconstruction.^[22]

[edit] D

• Hamid Dabashi: Dabashi is an Iranian-born American intellectual historian, cultural and literary critic best known for his scholarship on Iran and Shi'a Islam. He is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York, the oldest and most prestigious Chair in Iranian Studies.^[23] In the essay "In the Absence of the Face," Dabashi uses deconstructive methods in his investigation of the Judeo-Islamic heritage.^[24]
• Samuel Delany: Delany is an award-winning American science fiction author, widely known in the academic world as a literary critic. His essays and novels have been influenced by deconstruction.^[25]
• Jacques Derrida: Derrida was an Algerian-born French philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction.^[26][27]
• Alexander García Düttmann: Düttmann is Professor of Philosophy and Visual Culture at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His work focuses on art, language, history, politics, and deconstruction.^[28]
• Paulo Cesar Duque-Estrada: Duque-Estrada is Professor of Philosophy at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, with a Ph.D at Boston College. He founded the Study Group in Ethics and Deconstruction, (NEED- Núcleo de Estudos em Ética e Desconstrução) and has published various works on Derrida, Heidegger, Gadamer, Levinas and Husserl.^{[citation needed]}

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[edit] F

• Christopher Fynsk: Fynsk is a Professor in the School of Language and Literature at the University of Aberdeen. In his book, Heidegger: Thought and Historicity (1993, 2nd edn.), he acknowledges that "the influence of Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Jean-Luc Nancy on the pages that follow is far greater than I have been able to indicate."^[29] He was also a participant in Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy's Centre for Philosophical Research on the Political.^[30]

[edit] G

• Rodolphe Gasché: Gasché holds the Eugenio Donato Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York. He is the author of numerous books, including the influential The Tain of the Mirror: Derrida and the Philosophy of Reflection (1986),^[31] and Inventions of Difference: On Jacques Derrida (1994).^[32]

[edit] H

• Werner Hamacher: Hamacher holds the Emmanuel Levinas Chair at the European Graduate School, is Professor for General and Comparative Literature at the University of Frankfurt, and is Global Distinguished Professor at New York University.^[33] Hamacher writes in the tradition of the Yale School of deconstruction and touches on topics including politics, literature, and philosophy.^[34]
• Sean Hand: Hand is an Irish-born literary theorist and Professor of French at Warwick University. He is a Leiris and Levinas scholar whose work incorporates aspects of deconstructive analysis and ethical reading.^[35]
• Michael Hardt: Hardt is an American literary theorist and political philosopher based at Duke University. Perhaps his most famous work is Empire, written with Antonio Negri. Hardt is a Derrida scholar whose work has been influenced by deconstruction.^[36][37]
• Geoffrey Hartman: Hartman is the Sterling Professor emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University. He was part of the Yale School of deconstruction and has written extensively using deconstructive concepts.^[38]
• Anselm Haverkamp: Profoundly influenced by Derrida, Haverkamp has completed several works on Friedrich Holderlin and deconstruction, among other topics. He teaches at New York University and the European University Viadrina Frankfurt(Oder) and is the secretary-general of the German-based International Walter Benjamin Society.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] I

• Luce Irigaray: Irigaray is a French feminist and psychoanalytic and cultural theorist. She employs deconstructive concepts in advancing her message.^[39]

[edit] J

• Fredric Jameson: Jameson, a Marxist political and literary critic, is currently William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University. His work engages with the continental tradition of philosophy, including deconstruction.^[40]
• Barbara Johnson: Johnson is an American literary critic and translator. She is currently a Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University. She studied at Yale University while the Yale School of deconstruction was in ascendence. Much of her work has centered on social subordination, identity politics, literary theory, and deconstruction.^[41]

[edit] K

• Peggy Kamuf: Kamuf is the Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Kamuf’s principal research interests are in literary theory and contemporary French thought and literature. She has written extensively on the work of Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, and Jean-Luc Nancy, and has also translated a number of their texts.^[42]
• Kojin Karatani: Kojin is a Japanese philosopher and literary critic associated with the Yale School of deconstruction. Karatani has interrogated the possibility of a de Manian deconstruction and engaged in a dialogue with Jacques Derrida on the occasion of the Second International Conference on Humanistic Discourse, organized by the University of Montreal. Derrida commented on Karatani's paper, 'Nationalism and Ecriture' with an emphasis on the interpretation of his own concept of écriture.^[43]
• Thomas Keenan: Keenan is Director of the Human Rights Project and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Bard College. He states in the introduction to Fables of Responsibility: Aberrations and Predicaments in Ethics and Politics (1997) that the book "locates itself within what has been called 'post-structuralism' or 'deconstruction,' but in a way that seeks to resist the easy division between the so-called 'literary' and 'political' wings of the work named with these slogans."^[44]
• Duncan Kennedy: Kennedy is the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School and a renowned critical legal theorist. Kennedy has written more than a few articles investigating deconstructive concepts, including the article "A Semiotics of Critique."^[45]
• Sarah Kofman: Kofman was a French philosopher and author of many books, especially known for her works on Freud and Nietzsche. She was a student and colleague of Derrida, and after her death he wrote about Kofman and her work.^[46]
• Julia Kristeva: Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, psychoanalyst, feminist, and novelist. Kristeva is a prolific writer who has employed deconstructive concepts in many of her books.^[47]

[edit] L

• Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe: Lacoue-Labarthe was a French philosopher, literary critic, and translator. Lacoue-Labarthe, like Jean-Luc Nancy, was a student and then colleague of Derrida. In addition to writing many books (including together), Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy were co-directors of the short-lived Centre for Philosophical Research on the Political, which developed out of a 1980 colloquium devoted to the political questions arising from Derrida's work.^[48] Lacoue-Labarthe's book, Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy, Politics (1989), contains an introduction by Derrida, "Desistance," consisting in a long discussion of Lacoue-Labarthe's work.^[49]
• Ernesto Laclau: Laclau is an Argentinian political theorist often described as post-Marxist. He is a professor at the University of Essex where he holds a chair in Political Theory and was for many years director of the doctoral Programme in Ideology and Discourse Analysis. He has lectured extensively in many universities in North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Australia and South Africa. Recently, he left The University at Buffalo and now teaches at Northwestern University. Laclau has stated that his writings take a deconstructive approach.^[50]

[edit] M

• Paul de Man: De Man was a Belgian-born deconstructionist literary critic and theorist. As a member of the Yale School of deconstruction, de Man was instrumental in popularizing deconstruction as a form of literary criticism in the United States. De Man made extensive use of deconstructive concepts throughout his career.^[51]
• J. Hillis Miller: Miller is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California Irvine. He was part of the Yale School of deconstruction and has written extensively using deconstructive concepts.^[52]
• W.J.T. Mitchell: Mitchell is Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago. He is also the editor of Critical Inquiry, and contributes to the journal October. Mitchell co-authored a book about Derrida with Arnold I. Davidson entitled The Late Derrida.^[53]
• Chantal Mouffe: Mouffe holds a professorship at the University of Westminster in England. She writes primarily about political issues and employs deconstructive strategies in doing so.^[54]

[edit] N

• Jean-Luc Nancy: Nancy is a French philosopher and author. Nancy, like Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, was a student and then colleague of Derrida. In addition to writing many books (including together), Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe were co-directors of the short-lived Centre for Philosophical Research on the Political, which developed out of a 1980 colloquium devoted to the political questions arising from Derrida's work.^[55] Derrida's book, Le toucher, Jean-Luc Nancy (2000), is about Nancy's writing.^[56]
• Christopher Norris: Norris holds the title of Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at Cardiff University. Norris has been influenced by Derrida and the Yale School. Norris is known for arguing against relativism and in favor of a point of view he calls "deconstructive realism."^[57]

[edit] O

[edit] P

• Arkady Plotnitsky: Plotnitsky is Professor of English and Director of Theory and Cultural Studies Program at Purdue University. Plotnitsky has authored books and articles that engage with deconstruction and science.^[58]

[edit] Q

[edit] R

• François Raffoul: Raffoul is associate professor of philosophy at Louisiana State University. He is the author, editor, and translator of numerous works on Martin Heidegger, Jean-Luc Nancy, and contemporary French philosophy. He has emphasized the role of responsibility and ethics in Heidegger's thought and revitalizing the phenomenological concept of facticity.^{[citation needed]}
• Avital Ronell: Ronell is Professor and Chair of German and Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University, as well as a member of the faculty of the European Graduate School. To some, Avital is affectionately known as the "black lady of deconstruction" and the "ivory-tower terrorist."^[59] Her works apply vigorous deconstructive interpretations to current theories of technology, social hierarchies, ethics, and aesthetics, among other topics.^[60]
• Richard Rorty: Rorty is an American philosopher. He is currently an emeritus professor of comparative literature, and, by courtesy, philosophy at Stanford University. Having started his career writing in the analytic tradition of philosophy, Rorty's later works take up pragmatic and deconstructive themes.^[61]

[edit] S

• Edward Said: Said was a well-known Palestinian-American literary theorist, critic, and outspoken political activist. He was a University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and is regarded as a founding figure in postcolonialism.^[62] Throughout his career, Said was concerned with the repression faced by Muslims in general and Palestinians in particular.^[63] Although Said has never acknowledged that he was influenced by Derrida, in a 1976 interview he said that he shared many theoretical interests with the Yale School deconstructionists.^[64] Said went on to qualify the assertion by expressing regret that the thinkers lacked concern with historical and political questions.^[65] Later, Said described his work in the book Orientalism as an effort to deconstruct platitudes associated with so-called Western values in order to engender genuine human freedom.^[66] In a 1986 interview, Derrida stated that he wished to see the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the occupied Palestinian territories but that the Israeli state's existence must be recognized by all.^[67] To some, Derrida's stated position on Israel was inconsistent with his position on apartheid-era South Africa.^[68] When Said was asked about Derrida's relative silence on the issue of Palestine in a 1998 interview, he apparently sidestepped the issue.^[69]
• John Sallis: Sallis is Frederick J. Adelmann Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. The work of Sallis and Derrida intertwines at many points, notably in their readings of the Platonic dialogue Timaeus.^[70] An essay by Derrida about Sallis's work is included in Kenneth Maly (ed.), The Path of Archaic Thinking: Unfolding the Work of John Sallis (1995).^[71]
• Pierre Schlag: Schlag is the Byron R. White Professor at the University of Colorado Law School. Schlag is a critical legal theorist and has written about deconstruction and the law.^[72]
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Spivak currently teaches at Columbia University. Spivak, a notable advocate of postcolonialism, studied with Paul de Man, translated Derrida's Of Grammatology and has used deconstructive concepts in her books.^[73]
• Bernard Stiegler: Stiegler is a French philosopher and Director of the Department of Cultural Development at the Centre Georges-Pompidou. Stiegler's work owes a great debt to both Heidegger and Derrida, while nevertheless offering decisive critiques of each.^[74]

[edit] T

• Mark C. Taylor: Taylor is the Cluett Professor of Humanities at Williams College. He is among the first authors to connect deconstruction with religious thought and has authored many books using deconstructive concepts.^[75] Taylor calls himself a "philosopher of culture"^[76] and often writes in a mode known as deconstruction-and-religion or postmodern a/theology.
• Khal Torabully: Torabully is a poet and semiologist who developed the paradigms of coolitude and the coral imaginary. He did so by linking cultural diversity and biodiversity, devising a poetics out of the migration of the indentured. He is indebted to deconstructionist thinking in his revisitation of history and cultural relationships.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] U

• Gregory Ulmer: Ulmer is Professor of Electronic Languages and Cybermedia at the European Graduate School. Ulmer's work focuses on hypertext, electracy and cyberlanguage and is frequently associated with "emerAgency", "fetishturgy," "choragraphy" and "mystoriography." He is the author of Applied Grammatology: Post(e)-Pedagogy from Jacques Derrida to Joseph Beuys; Teletheory: Grammatology in the Age of Video; Heuretics: The Logic of Invention; Internet Invention: From Literacy to Electracy; and Electronic Monuments.^[77]

[edit] V

• Hent de Vries: De Vries is currently Professor of the Humanities and Philosophy at The Johns Hopkins University, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. De Vries has been instrumental in explaining the apophatic and other theological claims and dimensions of deconstruction and for demonstrating its import for an understanding of religion in contemporary philosophy and culture. ^[78]

• Gerald Vizenor: Vizenor is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. According to Louis Owens, Vizenor employed deconstructive strategies in his novel The Darkness in St. Louis Bearheart.^[79] Vizenor has stated that his writing strategy involves deconstructing the subjugated position of Native Americans in dominant literary discourses.^[80]

[edit] W

• Samuel Weber: Weber is the Paul de Man Chair at the European Graduate School and the Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities at Northwestern University. He is known for his writings on deconstruction, literary theory, and psychoanalyis.^[81]
• David Wills: Wills is Professor of French and English and Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the State University of New York, Albany. His work is influenced by Derrida. He recently published Matchbook: Essays in Deconstruction (2005).^[82]
• Charles Winquist: Winquist was the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion at Syracuse University and a noted weak theologian. According to John D. Caputo, Winquist employed deconstructive strategies in his theological writings.^[83]
• David Wood: Wood is Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. His work is influenced by Derrida, and he is the author of several books, including The Deconstruction of Time (1988)^[84] and The Step Back: Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction (2005).^[85]
• Edith Wyschogrod: Wyschogrod is a Levinas scholar who engages with the work of Derrida, Heidegger, Janicaud and others. She currently teaches at Yeshiva University^{[citation needed] [86]}

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[edit] See also

Continental philosophy Deconstruction Deconstruction-and-religion Différance

Hermeneutics Metaphysics of presence Ontotheology Memory work

[edit] Notes