ABSTRACT
This entry focuses on the relationship between the concepts of “deconstruction” and “phenomenology” as the French philosopher Jacques Derrida develops and interweaves them together in the writings that he had published from 1967 on. It consists of the following steps: a) it starts with Derrida’s elaboration of the concept and work of deconstruction; b) it explains why, for Derrida, the deconstruction of phenomenology comes first; c) it highlights links and shifts between the deconstruction of phenomenology and the works that Derrida had devoted to Husserl before 1967; d) it focuses on the concept of ultra-transcendental life as the key legacy of the deconstruction of phenomenology for Derrida’s later work. 1
