Jacques Derrida was a prolific writer who published more than 37 books and 250 essays, interviews, etc. The most complete list is by Albert Leventure, in David Wood (ed), Derrida: a Critical Reader, Blackwell, Oxford, 1992.
For further reading:
Christopher Norris, Derrida, Fontana, London, 1987.
Geoffrey Bennington & Jacques Derrida, Jacques Derrida, University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Collections of short texts and extracts are a good way of beginning to read Derrida’s writing. See Peggy Kamuf’s A Derrida Reader, Harvester, Hemel Hempstead, 1991, and Derek Attridge’s Acts of Literature, Routledge, London, 1992.
Derrida’s interviews are also useful. The most wide-ranging and best for beginners is Points… Interviews, 1974-94, ed. Elisabeth Weber, Stanford University Press, 1995. Earlier interviews are in Positions [1972], ed. Alan Bass, Athlone Press, London, 1987.
There are two useful collections on politics: Institutions of Philosophy, Harvard University Press, 1992, and Negotiations: Writings, Minnesota University Press, Minneapolis, 1992. See also The Other Heading: Reflections on Today’s Europe [1991], Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1992.
For background reading to some of the debates…
The literary-critical debates are introduced in Christopher Norris’ Deconstruction: Theory and Practice, Methuen, London, 1982, and Jonathan Culler’s On Deconstruction, Routledge, London, 1983.
On deconstructive architecture, see Deconstruction: Omnibus Volume, ed. Andreas Papadakis et al, Academy Editions, London, 1989.
For art, see Peter Brunette and David Wills (eds), Deconstruction in the Visual Arts, Cambridge University Press, 1993. Two shorter accounts are in What is Deconstruction? by Andrew Benjamin and Christopher Norris, Academy Editions, London, 1989.
On gender politics and deconstruction, see Elisabeth Grosz’s essay in Feminist Knowledge: Critique and Construct, ed. Sneja Gunew, Routledge, London 1990, and Diane Elam’s Feminism and Deconstruction: Ms. En Abyme, Routledge, London, 1994.
Gayatri Spivak’s writing is usefully introduced in A Spivak Reader, edited by Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, Routledge, London, 1996.
For those who want to keep up to date, an annual review of what’s been written on and about deconstruction is included in The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Blackwell, Oxford, yearly from 1991.
Texts by Derrida:
‘Plato’s Pharmacy’ in Dissemination [1972] Athlone Press, London, 1981.
‘Differance’ in Speech and Phenomena [1967] Northwest University Press, Illinois, 1973.
’Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences’ in Writing and Difference [1967] University of Chicago Press, 1978.
‘Signature Event Context’ in Margins of Philosophy [1972] Harvester Press, Brighton, 1982.
Glas [1974] University of Nebraska Press, 1986.
‘Letter to a Japanese Friend’ [1983] in A Derrida Reader, ed. Kamuf (above).
‘Mallarmé’ [1974] in Acts of Literature, ed. Attridge (above).
‘Ulysses Gramophone: Hear Say Yes in Joyce’ [1987] in Acts of Literature, ed. Attridge (above).
‘Point de Folie – Maintenant l’Architecture’ [1986] in Bernard Tschumi, Le Case Vide, Architectural Association, London, 1986.
The Truth in Painting [1978] University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Memoirs of the Blind [1990] University of Chicago Press, 1993.
‘Like the Sound of the Sea Deep Within a Shell: Paul de Man’s War’ [1988] in revised edition of Memoirs for Paul de Man, Columbia University Press, 1989.
‘Choreographies’ [1982] in Points… Interviews, 1974-94, ed. Weber (above).
Specters of Marx [1993] Routledge, London, 1994.
The ‘matrix’ statement [here] is from an interview with Peter Brunette and David Wills in Deconstruction in the Visual Arts (above). Derrida’s comments on architecture [here, here] were made in interviews with Christopher Norris, Architectural Design, v59 n1–2, 1989, and Eva Meyer, Domus, v671, Apr 1986. Sarat Maharaj’s ‘Pop Art’s Pharmacies’ [here] is in Art History v15 n3, 1992, and Fred Orton’s ‘On being bent “blue”..’ [here] in Oxford Art Journal v12 n1. Gayatri Spivak [here] was interviewed for Radical Philosophy, n54, 1990.