He is one of the major figures associated with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy. Jacques Derrida ( / ˈ d ɛr ɪ d ə/ French: born Jackie Élie Derrida 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher best known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction, which he analyzed in numerous texts, and developed in the context of phenomenology.
