Who Was Jacques Derrida?

Who Was Jacques Derrida? is the first intellectual biography of Derrida, the first full-scale appraisal of his career, his influence, and his philosophical roots.  It is also the first attempt to define his crucial importance as the ambassador of "e;theory,"e; the phenomenon that has had a profound influence on academic life in the humanities. Mikics lucidly and sensitively describes for the gener...