List of Thinkers Influenced By Deconstruction - J

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• Carol Jacobs: Jacobs is the Birgit Baldwin Professor of Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of German at Yale University. Her early work on Benjamin, Rilke, Artaud, and Nietzsche demonstrates the influence of Paul de Man's brand of rhetorical deconstruction. De Man wrote a well-known introduction to her first book, The Dissimulating Harmony.
• Fredric Jameson: Jameson, a Marxist political and literary critic, is currently William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University. His work engages with the continental tradition of philosophy, including deconstruction.
• Barbara Johnson: Johnson was an American literary critic and translator. She was a Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University. She studied at Yale University while the Yale School of deconstruction was in ascendence. Much of her work centered on social subordination, identity politics, literary theory, and deconstruction.