Over the past four decades, scholars in the American humanities have used deconstruction — a style of interpretation pioneered by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida — to question the binary ...

T here is much at stake in the shift from the present to the past — and so it is with Timothy Brennan’s recent Chronicle essay, “What Was Deconstruction?” In the headline’s formulation, the end of ...

The year of the United States Bicentennial found French philosopher Jacques Derrida feeling rather intimidated. The University of Virginia—founded by Thomas Jefferson—had invited him to compare ...

Here are five stories we tell ourselves — five famous history stories that you have heard all your life — that aren't true. Not only are they not true, but historians have known they aren't true, said ...