List of Thinkers Influenced By Deconstruction - E

E

• Lee Edelman: (1953-) American queer theorist and Fletcher Professor of English Literature at Tufts University. Author of Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory (1994) and No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (2005). Edelman is famous for his critique of reproductive futurism and his controversial insistence on the antisocial quality of sexuality.

• Jacques Ehrmann: (1931-1972) French literary theorist and faculty member of the Yale University French Department from 1961 until his death in 1972. Influential in the Structuralism movement in the 1960s leading up to deconstruction. As contemporary and peer of Jacques Derrida, he invited him to Yale for the first time in 1968.

• Donatella Di Cesare is Professor of Philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). She has been developing her researches on the relations between deconstruction and hermeneutics. Di Cesare is author of Utopia of Undestanding. Between Babel and Auschwitz''.