Derrida, His Life and Philosophy

all right Jacques Derrida Derrida um you probably have people heard of Derrida may not know anything about the Erb yet he's probably the most controversial philosopher of recent years and also hugely influential but for many strange reasons which we'll talk about you've heard the term deconstruction this is Derrida generally the term in fact invariably the term is misused and we'll talk about that but this that idea comes from Derrida he's been protested he's been arrested he's had professor professional and professorial group strike against him to try and keep him from teaching or being given appointments and whatnot so he's he's been controversial and we'll talk about why that is he was born in 1930 in Algeria he's a Sephardic Jew and this is very important because being a Sephardic Jew in Algeria is sort of like being a minority of a minority because while the main population is of course Muslim the Algeria occupied for many many years by the French and before Dara Dahl was born the French thought it would be a great idea to give French citizenship to all the Sephardic Jews in Algeria so they became sort of French and this sort of made but not really French because they're Jewish and nobody likes the Jews right so it was this weird position that they were placed in where they were sort of cooperating with the occupying powers which made them none too popular with people the Muslim Brotherhood who ride no use for Jews anyway but really the French administration didn't trust them that much because a they're from Algeria and B they're Jews and so it really put them as a community in this very awkward situation and anyway for Derrida this is influential on his thinking he never claimed this but it's perfectly clear if you read it read a lot of his writing by the way he wrote over 50 books so he wrote a lot and none of it is readable so it's even more because it's so uncomfortable at every moment um but when he was in school once he was thrown out of school because the school had over its enrollment of Jews it was only allowed a certain percentage of Jews and he got kicked out a second time he was thrown out of school because the pathan government the Vichy government put ...