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Jacques Derrida

French philosopher1930 to 2004

Wikidata names Jean-Toussaint Desanti as doctoral advisor and lists 11 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata11

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors4

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Jean Hyppolite

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Louis Althusser

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Michel Foucault

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Étienne Borne

Taught4

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

The line above and below3 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 17 people: 17 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.