List of Thinkers Influenced By Deconstruction - R

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• François Raffoul: Raffoul is associate professor of philosophy at Louisiana State University. He is the author, editor, and translator of numerous works on Martin Heidegger, Jean-Luc Nancy, and contemporary French philosophy. He has emphasized the role of practical philosophy in Heidegger's thought and revitalizing the phenomenological concept of facticity. Received his doctorate under the tutelage of Jacques Derrida.
• "'Peter Rollins'": Rollins is an Irish theologian who specializes in the intermixing of post-structural thought and emerging church theology.
• Avital Ronell: Ronell is Professor and Chair of German and Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University, as well as a member of the faculty of the European Graduate School. To some, Avital is affectionately known as the "black lady of deconstruction" and the "ivory-tower terrorist." Her works apply vigorous deconstructive interpretations to current theories of technology, social hierarchies, ethics, and aesthetics, among other topics.
• Richard Rorty: Rorty was an American philosopher, professor of comparative literature, and, by courtesy, philosophy at Stanford University. Having started his career writing in the analytic tradition of philosophy, Rorty's later works take up pragmatic and deconstructive themes.
• John Russon: Russon is the Presidential Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario. He is the author of Human Experience and Bearing Witness to Epiphany . He has used ideas of deconstruction in relationship to mental health, relationships, politics and art.