For 10 points, name this French philosopher and literary critic, the founder of deconstruction.
This thinker defined a scenario where a host treats a foreigner or other person as being in their proper place without asking for reciprocity as "absolute hospitality." One of this thinker's works is titled after an image that shows Plato standing behind a seated Socrates. Another asserts that the present is dependent on the past, which he calls "hauntology." He called writing that impacts the soul of the reader while maintaining the distinction between intention and conveyance "arche-writing." This author of The Post Card and Specters of Marx was inspired by Ferdinand de Saussure's idea of signs to explore the importance of dichotomies in literary works, thus developing an approach that would be used by Paul de Man. Among his better known works are Writing and Difference and Of Grammatology. For 10 points, name this French philosopher and literary critic, the founder of deconstruction.
This thinker defined a scenario where a host treats a foreigner or other person as being in their proper place without asking for reciprocity as "absolute hospitality.
Jacques Derrida