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roachboy · 10-09-2004, 08:42 AM

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.

asaris · 10-09-2004, 08:53 AM

Well, Derrida has been one of my favorite philosophers for a while, and even if his work in his later years wasn't the same quality as his earlier stuff, he had a great mind.

SecretMethod70 · 10-10-2004, 01:15 AM

I'm home for the weekend, but I'm sure my philosopher roommate will make particular mention of this when I get back. I know he particularly liked Derrida (not his most favorite, but one of them at least).

livingfossil · 10-10-2004, 10:36 AM

I'll miss Jacques Jacques. Not overmuch, but a little. I wouldn't haved minded if his sloppy followers were the one's to have been forever silenced and he got another 20 years to share his thoughts.

10-09-2004, 08:42 AM	#1 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	derrida died last night 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. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 10-09-2004 at 08:55 AM..

10-09-2004, 08:53 AM	#2 (permalink)
asaris Mad Philosopher Location: Washington, DC	Well, Derrida has been one of my favorite philosophers for a while, and even if his work in his later years wasn't the same quality as his earlier stuff, he had a great mind. __________________ "Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht." "The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

10-10-2004, 01:15 AM	#3 (permalink)
SecretMethod70 Human Administrator Location: Chicago	I'm home for the weekend, but I'm sure my philosopher roommate will make particular mention of this when I get back. I know he particularly liked Derrida (not his most favorite, but one of them at least). __________________ Le temps détruit tout "Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling

10-10-2004, 10:36 AM	#4 (permalink)
livingfossil Tilted Location: Chicago	I'll miss Jacques Jacques. Not overmuch, but a little. I wouldn't haved minded if his sloppy followers were the one's to have been forever silenced and he got another 20 years to share his thoughts. __________________ Never anything witty.