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Jacques Derrida is dead
radio news item | 9 Oct 04 | Rightwhale

Posted on 10/09/2004 11:39:18 AM PDT by RightWhale

Jacques Derrida a website

Voyage ends at age 74


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: academia; deconstruction; derrida; goodriddance; leftyflake; obituary; oneofthebadguys; philosophy; postmodernism; poststructuralism; who
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To: Kenny Bunk

You might be onto something there. Of course there may be parts that are dead and other parts alive. From what I can determine from observing most liberals they are dead from the shoulders up while wishing others' to be dead from the waist down, or maybe its their ideas are dead from the inception and they want others' progeny dead from conception. Then, as you say, only the dead would dare vote for the likes of Kerry and the only way the liberals could win is with the dead vote. Ah! it is all so confusing! Is he still dead?


121 posted on 10/10/2004 10:29:44 AM PDT by blue-duncan
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To: blue-duncan; RightWhale
Yep Foucault died of another construct: AIDS, in the 80s (or 90s). I'm no expert on the subject, but I recall seeing somewhere that Foucault didn't believe that "diseases" existed, yes just another construct waiting to be deconstructed.

Hey Foucault and Derrida: "I got your construct right here" (/ NY accent)

122 posted on 10/10/2004 11:37:08 AM PDT by beckaz (MSM: We have and are yesterday's news)
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To: freedumb2003

Ho hum, this is is boring.

Can't decide if it because of ignorance or apathy.


Frankly, I don't know and just don't care!


123 posted on 10/10/2004 11:44:01 AM PDT by gc4nra ( this tag line protected by Kimber and the First Amendment)
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To: gc4nra

Care is another construct!


124 posted on 10/10/2004 2:07:33 PM PDT by blue-duncan
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To: beckaz; blue-duncan; RightWhale
Is he still dead?

Foucault was decontructed, not AIDS. When you're swinginging back and forth like that, it is easy to become disoriented.

Minor matter.

125 posted on 10/10/2004 5:38:35 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk
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To: Kenny Bunk

Gently amusing historical reference (spent many an hour hypnotized at the Smithsonian Institute).


126 posted on 10/10/2004 5:53:21 PM PDT by JusPasenThru (Look at the hysterical pack of weirdos, thugs and prevaricators that the Democratic Party has become)
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To: Kenny Bunk

Therefore, uncaring would be a deconstruct!


127 posted on 10/10/2004 9:08:17 PM PDT by gc4nra ( this tag line protected by Kimber and the First Amendment)
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To: RightWhale
RIP. The one thing that the poor fellow really couldn't stand was his own method applied to his philosophy. You can't simultaneously challenge the concreteness of all intellectual terms and then slog the English language with the level of jargon that Derrida did, and be taken seriously.

Deconstructionism taken literally undoes itself. The proposition that a referent and its object map imperfectly dates at least as far back as Aristotle, but "imperfectly" does not mean "not at all" or the proposition itself would be meaningless.

My brain hurts. Time for a beer.

128 posted on 10/10/2004 9:33:10 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: DC Bound

Roger that.


129 posted on 10/10/2004 9:40:38 PM PDT by Calusa (One Nation Gone Under.)
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To: gc4nra

Precisement, mon ami. Hold that thought.


130 posted on 10/11/2004 4:44:30 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk
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To: Kenny Bunk
.......and be taken seriously. Deconstructionism taken literally undoes itself. The proposition that a referent and its object map imperfectly dates at least as far back as Aristotle, but "imperfectly" does not mean "not at all" or the proposition itself would be meaningless.

Yes but, we had better take it seriously because "Deconstruction" is the mental engine that drives precisely those people, who if in power, will deconstruct us all. For some darn reason, the Clintons spring to mind.

131 posted on 10/11/2004 4:49:44 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk
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To: DC Bound

Flamed? You are to be congratulated for surviving, and then letting your example of change for the better be read by millions. Who knows, someone with like background might be influenced for good.


132 posted on 10/11/2004 5:49:24 AM PDT by wita
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To: Billthedrill

He had a good example in what happened in Turkey when the monarch changed the alphabet by decree one day. Suddenly all the signs were different. Yet not.


133 posted on 10/11/2004 9:11:32 AM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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To: DC Bound; betty boop
Thank you for your service, DC Bound!

And thank you for the ping, betty boop.

134 posted on 10/12/2004 10:21:37 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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