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  • Judith Shklar in 1966
    Judith Shklar in 1966
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    The Freedom to Think Differently

    Judith Shklar’s minority liberalism offers both an escape hatch from the Hobbesian tyranny of democratic majorities and a pathway to becoming the freest and most authentic versions of ourselves

    byBlake Smith
  • Bernard-Henri Lévy in Afghanistan, near Kabul, 2002
    Bernard-Henri Lévy in Afghanistan, near Kabul, 2002
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    The Nomad

    Q&A with Bernard-Henri Lévy

    byDavid Samuels
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    Writing and Difference, Jacques Derrida (1967)

    Deconstruct this.

    byDavid Mikics
  • Jacques Derrida, 1993.(Ferenc Kalmandy/AFP/Getty Images)
    Jacques Derrida, 1993.(Ferenc Kalmandy/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Jacques Derrida’s Life as an Algerian Jew Revealed in Newly Translated Bio

    The philosopher’s influential legacy is reshaped by the part of his life story that is often overlooked

    byScott Krane
  • Derrida, at home in Ris-Orangis, near Paris, in 2001.(Joel Robine/AFP/Getty Images)
    Derrida, at home in Ris-Orangis, near Paris, in 2001.(Joel Robine/AFP/Getty Images)
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    A Skeptic’s Skeptic

    A new biography takes a look at Derrida’s philosophy of disillusionment

    byDavid Kaufmann
  • (La caverne aux livres by gadl / Alexandre Duret-Lutz; some rights reserved.)
    (La caverne aux livres by gadl / Alexandre Duret-Lutz; some rights reserved.)
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    On the Bookshelf

    Assimilation and anxiety, from Paris to the Pampas

    byJosh Lambert
  • Levi-Strauss in 2005(Pascal Pavani/AFP/Getty Image)
    Levi-Strauss in 2005(Pascal Pavani/AFP/Getty Image)
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    Claude Levi-Strauss Dies

    French-Jewish founder of structuralism was 100

    byAri M. Brostoff
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    Always Already

    Haunted by ghosts, Jacques Derrida’s writings confounded the march of time

    byLeslie Camhi
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