Editing Jacques Derrida (section)

==Personal life and death==
In June 1957, he married the psychoanalyst [[Marguerite Aucouturier]] in [[Boston]].

Derrida was diagnosed with [[pancreatic cancer]] in 2002.<ref name="stanford" />
He  died during surgery in a hospital in Paris in the early hours of 9 October 2004.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21050-2004Oct9.html, "Jacques Derrida Dies; Deconstructionist Philosopher"], ''Washington Post'', 9 October 2004. Retrieved 9 May 2012.</ref><ref name="obituary">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/obituaries/jacques-derrida-abstruse-theorist-dies-at-74.html |title=Jacques Derrida, Abstruse Theorist, Dies at 74 |last=Kandell |first=Jonathan |work=The New York Times|date=10 October 2004}}</ref><ref>Peeters, Benoît (2013). [https://books.google.com/books?id=qXmrAAAAQBAJ ''Derrida: A Biography'']. Translated by Andrew Brown. Cambridge: Polity Press. p. 540</ref>

At the time of his death, Derrida had agreed to go for the summer to [[University of Heidelberg]] as holder of the [[Hans-Georg Gadamer|Gadamer]] professorship,<ref name="uni-heidelberg.de">{{cite web |url=http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/press/news/press358_e.html |title=The University of Heidelberg Mourns the Death of Jacques Derrida |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304194718/http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/press/news/press358_e.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead |date=12 October 2004}}</ref> whose invitation was expressed by the hermeneutic philosopher himself before his death. Peter Hommelhoff, Rector at Heidelberg by that time, would summarize Derrida's place as: "Beyond the boundaries of philosophy as an academic discipline he was a leading intellectual figure not only for the humanities but for the cultural perception of a whole age."<ref name="uni-heidelberg.de"/>