Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry (1962) - An analysis of Husserl’s The Crisis of European Sciences.
Speech and Phenomena (1967) - A commentary on and reformulation of Husserl’s phenomenology.
Of Grammatology (1967) - An introduction to deconstruction and an argument that writing is essential to meaning, instead of the more common view that it is secondary to speech.
Writing and Difference (1967) - A similar and supplementary work to Of Grammatology, it analyzes the relationship between writing and speech in argument and literature.
Margins of philosophy (1972) - A deconstructionist and linguistic account of the limits of philosophy throughout history.
Glas (1974) - A deconstructionist account of Hegel’s work combined with the writings of Jean Genet. It examines the overlap between literature and philosophy.
Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles (1978) - A deconstructionist account of Nietzsche’s writing
The truth in painting (1978) - An examination of the relationship between art and language and the extent to which art can hold truth.
The Post Card (1980) - A series of fictional letters that examine Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis.
The Ear of the Other (1985) - A deconstructionist commentary on reading and the medium of autobiography.
Antonin Artaud: Dessins Et Portraits (1986) - An examination of the art of Antonin Artaud.
Limited Inc. (1988) - Essays that attempt to mesh linguistics and deconstruction.
The Other Heading (1991) - An examination of the designation 'other' and what that means for Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The Gift of Death (1992) - A deconstructionist Biblical (and literary) analysis that examines the nature of sacrifice and murder.
Acts of Literature (1992) - A series of essays that provide a deconstructionist account of literature.
Specters of Marx (1993) - An argument that the spirits or specters of Marx’s legacy will continue to haunt the world, and what that entails for the future.
The Politics of Friendship (1994) - A historical analysis of friendship and an argument that the concept of friendship should be reformulated.
The Monolingualism of the Other (1996) - An argument that a language can never truly be one’s own and a vestige of some 'other' always remains.
Archive Fever (1995) - A deconstructionist account of the process of archiving, including technology and memories.
Of hospitality (2000) - An examination of hospitality and the designation of 'stranger'.
The Work of Mourning (2001) - A collection of writings regarding Derrida’s lost friends and colleagues.
On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness (2001) - A commentary on ethics and politics under globalization.
Acts of Religion (2002) - A commentary on religious traditions and their respective texts throughout history.
On Touching—Jean-Luc Nancy (2005 / Posthumous) - A deconstructionist account of touch.
Sovereignties in question (2005 / Posthumous) - An analysis on the work of the poet Paul Celan.
The Animal That Therefore I Am (2008 / Posthumous) - An analysis of the designation of animal and of the discerning of human and non-human creatures.
Theory and Practice (2019 / Posthumous) - An examination of the Marxist distinction between theory and practice.
Life Death (2023) - A deconstruction account of the concepts of life and death.
