Jacques Derrida

HC was a close personal friend of Jacques Derrida — who, like her, was a French citizen and a Jew born in Algeria. She was introduced to Jacques Lacan while her doctoral thesis was...

The book is a kind of kaleidoscope of splintered biography and textual commentary, emphasizing its subject's Jewish heritage. It uses Derrida 's confessions, published ten years earlier as a gloss for another text altogether...

When theoretical critic Barbara Johnson composed an essay on MS in 1980 she was choosing, for a symposium on Jacques Derrida , a relatively unknown topic—yet for the rest of her career she found she...

Four years after its publication, a reviewer for Contemporary Sociology called this book the best available introduction in the English language to the semiotic structuralism of Saussure , Lévi-Strauss , and Lacan ; the structural...

HC , a French writer and academic, is best known to English-speaking audiences as a literary critic associated with French feminism of the 1970s and 80s, and as proponent of écriture féminine. She herself...

This book's reception was polarized along political lines. The Soweto riots (which began three years before this novel appeared) were a factor when it was banned. When the ban was lifted in 1980, NG was...

According to Eric Homberger in the Times Literary Supplement, the Sociology of Literature Conference held at the University of Essex was dominated by the names of Lacan , Derrida , and Kristeva .

Its controversial element was the way it merged gender politics with established psychoanalytic theory. It probes the problematic relation between women as speaking subjects and language as a patriarchal institution.LI argues that Western man-centred...

Critic Frédéric Regard calls HC 's critical process here sur-lining. He notes that in the original French edition of this book the publishers printed HC 's comments in the margins next to the...

Hyperdream posits a line of communication to the dead, and explores other mysterious lines of connection. One of these is a bed bought by Eve, the semi-mythical mother of the narrator, Hélène, from someone called...

HC 's memoir Portrait de Jacques Derrida en jeune saint Juif appeared; it was translated into English by Beverley Bie Brahic (as Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint) in 2003.

Her effort to put her thoughts on art, morality, and reality into a unified and coherent form is a journey of the intellect that ranges through investigations of the powers of art, the mind, and...