UB Expert
Rodolphe Gasche
SUNY Distinguished Professor and Eugenio Donato Professor of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature
College of Arts and Sciences
716-645-2066 ext. 1094
Expertise:
- Derrida, the French philosopher
- 19th- and 20th-century French literature, critical theory and its relation to continental philosophy since early romanticism
Gasche is one of the world's foremost authorities on Jacques Derrida, the consummately difficult French philosopher who initiated the concept of "deconstruction," the wide-ranging critique of the possibility of coherent meaning in language. Known for his provocative and detailed analysis of the philosopher's theories. A native of Luxembourg, Gasche studied at the Freie Universitat Berlin and the Ecole Normale Superiere de Paris, where he studied with Jacques Derrida.
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