Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was a French philosopher and literary critic. He was born in El Biar, Algeria, on July 15, 1930, and died in Paris on October 9, 2004.
Derrida was the first to use the concept of deconstruction in its new sense in philosophy, and the first to employ it philosophically in this way. This made him one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. Derrida’s primary goal was to critique the traditional European philosophical approach through the mechanisms of deconstruction, which he applied procedurally to this end.