The future cannot be reappropriated.
L'avenir ne se laisse pas reapproprier.
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Jacques Derrida
A French philosopher of Sephardic Jewish origin, born in French Algeria. Derrida exposed the logocentrism lurking at the root of 2,500 years of Western philosophy and, through the method he called 'deconstruction,' triggered an intellectual upheaval that reached across philosophy, literary criticism, jurisprudence, and architecture. In 1967 he simultaneously published Of Grammatology, Speech and Phenomena, and Writing and Difference, becoming the central figure of post-structuralism.
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