Deconstruction icon Derrida dies
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French philosopher Jacques Derrida, the founder of the "deconstruction theory", dies at the age of 74.
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The pathos engulfing the death of Parveen Babi marked not just an individual's demise. It also symbolised the passing of a philosophy, a culture and a lifestyle that defined the late 60s and much of the 70s.
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Philosopher Jacques Derrida, founder of deconstructionism, has died aged 74 of pancreatic cancer. Deconstructionism is a kind of critical thinking or mode of analysis.
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Claude Pompidou, the publicity-shy widow of President Georges Pompidou who famously called the presidential palace "a house of sadness," died Tuesday in Paris, her foundation said. She was 94.
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Ernst Mayr, one of the world's leading evolutionary biologists, has died at 100.
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NEWS of the death of world intellectual and philosopher, Algerian born French philosopher, Jacques Derrida, has thrown the literary community and world leaders into mourning.
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Arthur Miller, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose most famous fictional creation, Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman," came to symbolize the American Dream gone awry, has diedy. He was 89.
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Remembering the brilliant comic who blazed a trail for free speech and was killed by "an overdose of police"
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Juan Francisco Fresno, the cardinal who played a key role in efforts to restore democracy in Chile during the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, has died, Roman Catholic Church authorities said. He was 90.
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Magazine photojournalist Carl Mydans, a pioneer of photo essays at Life magazine in the 1930s, has died at age 97.
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World renowned thinker Jacques Derrida, a founder of the school of philosophy known as deconstructionism, has died, the office of French President Jacques Chirac said Saturday. Derrida was 74.
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PARIS - World-renowned thinker Jacques Derrida, a charismatic philosopher who founded the school known as deconstructionism, has died, the French president&#39;s office said Saturday.
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French philosopher was the father of deconstructionism. Derrida died Friday of pancreatic cancer at age 74, French media reported.
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Social critic and author Susan  Sontag, one of America's leading intellectuals, died on Tuesday  at age 71 at New York's Sloan Kettering hospital after a battle  with leukemia, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site.
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Susan Sontag, the American author, activist and self-defined &quot;zealot of seriousness&quot;, whose provocative prose made her a leading intellectual, has passed away.
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Magazine photojournalist Carl Mydans,  a pioneer of photo essays at Life magazine in the 1930s, has  died at age 97.
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The opera world was yesterday mourning the death of Renata Tebaldi, the greatest Italian soprano of her generation and the rival of Maria Callas.