[Weblogsky] Revised Derrida Post (fwd)

[Alan Sondheim]

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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com>
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Subject: [Weblogsky] Revised Derrida Post (fwd)





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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 06:56:37 -0500
From: Jon Lebkowsky <jonl at polycot.com>
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Subject: [Weblogsky] Revised Derrida Post

Alan Sondheim posted a comment re. the Derrida review in the NYT and
sent me a couple of emails, including a link to a tribute at Le Monde.
I've updated the post:

That difficult man, Jacques Derrida, has died. Derrida practiced
direct transmission of the zen of decontstruction. Or perhaps not.
[Link
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/obituaries/10derrida.html?hp&ex=109
7380800&en=b96653950919a03c&ei=5094&partner=homepage> to NY Times
obituary]

Update: Alan Sondheim notes that the New York Times is not a fair or
comprehensive assessment of Derrida, let alone a fitting obituary.
Here's
<http://www.weblogsky.com/archives/%3Cbr%20/%3Ehttp://medias.lemonde.f
r/medias/pdf_obj/sup_pdf_derrida_111004.pdf> a link to a pdf of a
ten-page tribute to Derrida in Le Monde (in French).

Posted by Jon Lebkowsky at October 9, 2004 09:27 PM | TrackBack
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Comments

The NYT obituary is disturbing; the death of one of the world's
leading thinkers is hardly the time for a hack critique and attack.
There are good obits, particularly in french, available online.

Derrida has meant an enormous amount to some of us, a way of
rethinking reason itself, a problematizing of theory, an odd form of
symbolic materialism. My own work would be vastly different without
him.

Derrida has always struck me as a continuation of exegesis,
hermeneutics; many of us have silently responded to the rabbinical
within him. And many of us have responded as well to his compassion
for complexity, facing the difficulty of the world, acting within that
difficulty, without diminishment.

- Alan

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