Which philosopher's linguistics did Derrida closely analyze?
Ferdinand de Saussure
Søren Kierkegaard
Immanuel Kant
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Answer
Jacques Derrida closely analyzed the linguistics of Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, as well as the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. This analysis formed the basis of his deconstruction philosophy.
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