List of Thinkers Influenced By Deconstruction - K

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• Peggy Kamuf: Kamuf is the Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Kamuf’s principal research interests are in literary theory and contemporary French thought and literature. She has written extensively on the work of Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, and Jean-Luc Nancy, and has also translated a number of their texts.
• Kojin Karatani: Karatani is a Japanese philosopher and literary critic associated with the Yale School of deconstruction. Karatani has interrogated the possibility of a de Manian deconstruction and engaged in a dialogue with Jacques Derrida on the occasion of the Second International Conference on Humanistic Discourse, organized by the University of Montreal. Derrida commented on Karatani's paper, 'Nationalism and Ecriture' with an emphasis on the interpretation of his own concept of écriture.
• Thomas Keenan: Keenan is Director of the Human Rights Project and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Bard College. He states in the introduction to Fables of Responsibility: Aberrations and Predicaments in Ethics and Politics (1997) that the book "locates itself within what has been called 'post-structuralism' or 'deconstruction,' but in a way that seeks to resist the easy division between the so-called 'literary' and 'political' wings of the work named with these slogans."
• Duncan Kennedy: Kennedy is the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School and a renowned critical legal theorist. Kennedy has written more than a few articles investigating deconstructive concepts, including the article "A Semiotics of Critique."
• Sarah Kofman: Kofman was a French philosopher and author of many books, especially known for her works on Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche. She was a student and colleague of Derrida, and after her death he wrote about Kofman and her work.
• Julia Kristeva: Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, psychoanalyst, feminist, and novelist. Kristeva is a prolific writer who has employed deconstructive concepts in many of her books.
• Lawrence D. Kritzman: Kritzman is a theorist of Renaissance literature and a cultural critic. Inspired by the thought of Jacques Derrida and psychoanalysis, he has innovated the study of sixteenth century texts. He holds the John D. Willard Professor of French, Comparative Literature and Oratory at Dartmouth College.