Derrida on language and meaning. In a way, it is in this context that Derrida’s thinking becomes understandable, but it also expands in other directions that take distance from these classics. Sartre's Heidegger vs. Derrida's Heidegger . "Derrida’s ruminations should intrigue anyone interested in Post-Structuralism. . This study of Heidegger is a fine example of how Derrida can make readers of philosophical texts notice difficult problems in almost imperceptible details of those texts. Keywords: Death, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, phenomenology, Derrida performs an almost surgical reading of the notoriously difficult text, marrying pedagogical clarity with patient rigor and acting as a lucid guide through the thickets of Heidegger’s prose. If that doesn't hook you then check your pulse, you may have died. "—David Hoy, London Review of Books Derrida, according to predominant iterpreta- n tions of his thought, would follow Levinas’s lesson on ethics, thus separating it from ontology and refusing Heidegger’s option of an “originary ethics” in connection to ontology. Derrida’s most important philosophical influences were without doubt the works of Husserl and Heidegger. In an interview with Le Nouvel Observateur (9/9/83), Derrida explains that though he had gravitated toward philosophy under the aegis of Sartre as a model, who introduced him to the Heidegger's texts, he eventually read Heidegger against Sartre, concluding that Sartre had misread Heidegger himself. . Heidegger is against the modern tradition of philosophical “aesthetics” because he is for the true “work of art” which, he argues, the aesthetic approach to art eclipses. . a simultaneous opposition between Derrida and Heidegger with regard to the ethics-ontology relationship. by Steve Martinot . Lee Braver is the funky philosopher with deep broodings on Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard, Foucault, Heidegger, Derrida, existentialism, embodiment and disintegrating bugbears going on all the time. The thesis and the conclusion part is based on the idea that, on death, these philosophers are fundamentally similar and radically different. Heidegger’s critique of aesthetics and his advocacy of art thus form a complementary whole. This is shown by the comparison of these philosophers. Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. Derrida’s deconstruction of Heidegger’s account of death in Being and Time. .