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Notes & comments: November 2004.(Obituary)(Biography)
Derrida declawed
When the French philosopher Jacques Derrida died last month at seventy-four, the response was loud, passionate, and predictably divided according to demographic origin. If the response came from outside the academy, it tended to be bemused or critical. If a response came from the purlieus of the professoriate, however, it was likely to be sorrowful, eulogistic, even starry-eyed.
There was nothing surprising about this. "Deconstruction"--the movement that Derrida created in the mid-1960s and over which he presided with tireless attention until his demise--was always a hothouse phenomenon, ill-equipped to thrive in the rough-and-tumble of ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Notes & comments: November 2004.(Obituary)(Biography)