Jacques Derrida was a controversial philosopher whose writing could be fiendishly difficult to read. Nevertheless he had many followers. Here Pete Salmon, author of a recent biography of Derrida, manages to give a clear account of what Derrida meant by deconstruction.
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Simon May on Love
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Sarah Bakewell on Montaigne
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Jonathan Glover on Personality Disorder and Morality
Cécile Fabre on Cosmopolitanism and War
Michael Sandel on Justice
Paul Russell on Fate
Martha Nussbaum on the Value of the Humanities
Philip Pettit on Group Agency
Helen Beebee on Laws of Nature
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Alex Voorhoeve on Inequality
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