List of Thinkers Influenced By Deconstruction - D

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• Hamid Dabashi: Dabashi is an Iranian-born American intellectual historian, cultural and literary critic best known for his scholarship on Iran and Shi'a Islam. He is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York, the oldest and most prestigious Chair in Iranian Studies. In the essay "In the Absence of the Face," Dabashi uses deconstructive methods in his investigation of the Judeo-Islamic heritage.
• Karin de Boer: De Boer teaches philosophy at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). She has written a number of articles that deal with Derrida's indebtedness to - and transformation of - Hegel's philosophy, in particular his conception of negativity. In her most recent book - On Hegel: The Sway of the Negative (2010) - she presents a deconstructive reading of Hegel that responds to concerns voiced by Derrida and other continental philosophers.
• Samuel R. Delany: Delany is an award-winning American science fiction author, widely known in the academic world as a literary critic. His essays and novels have been influenced by deconstruction.
• Jacques Derrida: Derrida was an Algerian-born French philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction.
• Alexander García Düttmann: Düttmann is Professor of Philosophy and Visual Culture at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His work focuses on art, language, history, politics and deconstruction. He published Self Portrait and Lifelines and a text about Visconti. His research has focused on the relationship between language and history in authors such as Adorno, Benjamin and Heidegger.
• Paulo Cesar Duque-Estrada: Duque-Estrada is Professor of Philosophy at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, with a Ph.D at Boston College. He founded the Study Group in Ethics and Deconstruction, (NEED- Núcleo de Estudos em Ética e Desconstrução) and has published various works on Derrida, Heidegger, Gadamer, Levinas and Husserl.