Martine Franck/Magnum Photos Jacques Derrida at the Sorbonne, June, 1979

Emily Eakin, New York Review of Books

In America, Derrida, who died in 2004, left as big a mark on humanities departments as any single thinker of the past forty years—according to a recent survey, only works by Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu are cited more often.