http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3729844.stm
not sure how many folk have had a passage through deconstruction and its afterburn (following the de man business)..but this news is kind of sad.
i stopped reading derrida after "spectres of marx"--couldn't take him seriously any more in his claims to be political. but the earlier work was and remains interesting, useful even.
thoughts on derrida's death and/or his work?
post hoc:
it is typical that the bbc obit would get deconstruction wrong, presenting it as if all that was going on was a kind of facile relativism. there are problems with the approach derrida developed--and it is, in the end, a single type of move repeated in various contexts--but this is not one of them.