French philosopher 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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Author and social critic Susan Sontag,  one of the strongest voices of intellectual opposition to U.S.  policies after the Sept. 11 attacks, died on Tuesday at age 71  at a New York cancer hospital.
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Alain Robbe-Grillet, the French  writer who pioneered the so-called new novel genre, dies at the age of 85.
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French philosopher Jean Baudrillard,  whose provocative, paradoxical style was reflected in the title  of his 1991 work "The Gulf War did not take place," has died,  his publisher Galilee said on Wednesday. He was 77.
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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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French philosopher Jacques Derrida, the founder of the school of deconstructionism, has died of cancer at the age of 74, France Info radio said on Saturday.
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Jacques Derrida was the Algerian-born, French intellectual who became one of the most celebrated and unfathomable philosophers of the late 20th century.
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An anti-nuclear activist died in France on Sunday after having a leg cut off by a train transporting nuclear waste to Germany, France's SNCF railway operator said.
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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan, who died last week,  is buried  in south-west France.
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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot to fame with her first novel "Bonjour Tristesse" at the age of 18, died on Friday, a hospital spokesman said. Sagan, who was 69, courted controversy throughout her life and lived the Bohemian lifestyle she portrayed in her writing. She was a longstanding friend of late President Francois Mitterrand and was convicted of taking drugs and for tax fraud.
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Susan Sontag, an intellectual and human rights activist who wrote on subjects as diverse as photography, philosophy and AIDS, died today in New York City.
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The Indian guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, credited with setting the Beatles on the path to enlightenment, dies.
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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan dies in hospital in northern France  aged 69, family friends say.
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Alain Robbe-Grillet, an author and filmmaker who was one of Franceâs most important avant-garde writers in the 1950s, died on Monday. He was 85. He died at a hospital in western France where he had been admitted over the weekend for cardiac problems, o...
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Newspapers in France bid a sad adieu to a literary icon.
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French philosopher Jacques Derrida, the  founder of the school of deconstructionism, has died of cancer  at the age of 74, France Info radio said on Saturday.
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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's office said Saturday. He was 74...