During my PhD at the Université de Strasbourg, I proposed a classical approach to Jacques Derrida's philosophy. Unlike specialists involved in the initial reception of his work, I endeavored to study Derrida as if he were a traditional philosopher, applying classical hermeneutic methodologies. This approach was unusual in Derrida studies but yielded important results for the understanding of his philosophy, especially in relation to Hegel's thought.
My disseration, titled Deconstructing Family: A Study of Jacques Derrida's Anti-Hegelianism and supervised by Prof. Jacob Rogozinski, highlighted how, for Derrida, the Hegelian interpretation of kinship bonds had repercussions on his dialectical ontology. It demonstrated and emphasized the ways in which Derrida sought to dismantle that interpretation by analyzing a series of late texts and unpublished seminars. A first article in the Revista Iberoamericana de Estudios Hegelianos (Mistral, 2022) presented the main results of this research. Subsequently, I reworked the most innovative sections of the thesis into peer-reviewed paper: an essay presenting my interpretation of Glas was accepted by Derrida Today (Mistral, 2025a), and an article exploring Derrida’s concept of hospitality, emphasizing its contrast with kinship bonds, was accepted by Les Cahiers Philosophiques de Strasbourg (Mistral, 2025b). An additional paper derived from my thesis, which examines early Derrida’s deconstruction of Hegel’s dialectics, is currently under review at Philosophy and Society