"With him, France has given the world one of its greatest contemporary philosophers, one of the major figures of intellectual life of our time," 
Posted on 10/09/2004 5:16:26 PM PDT by El Conservador
Now the maggots and worms will deconstruct him.
This jackass basically thought that the ideals of Western Culture were not worthy of defense.
"With him, France has given the world one of its greatest contemporary philosophers, one of the major figures of intellectual life of our time,"
Sounds to me like he got "deconstructed".
Derrida is dead? Or is he? How can we be certain?
O, and the French are a bunch of prissy cowards, also.
Of course it did... he was a humanist/athiest who was enthralled with his own clever ability to deride and ridicule the ideals of others.
What shock awaits the man when final breath,
Finds unprepared a soul to meet its death....
Did he go down clockwise, or counterclockwise?
Whether he is dead or not is just a matter of your point of view, isn't it?
A jew who fought for the rights of Algerian immigrants...
bet those algerian moslem immigrant friends of his would be deconstructing his grave right now if they had the chance, Idiot.
Only by birth.
This "philosopher" was only beholden to his own sense of purpose.
He considered the religious to be unworthy fools.
I'm GLAD he was scared shitless at the end. It was a most deserved fate.
I'm curious as to where he'll be "laid to rest."
Anything else I wish to say would be removed by the Mods.
Just another dead French nihilist .... plenty of them to be had.
Yeah, seriously - his philosophy stands (fails to stand, really) in such sharp opposition to the principles of Judaism, one cannot consider him to be a Jew in any meaningful sense.
Hahaha! Beautiful!
I'm sure the sexual and racial proletariat will show up and demand to know if death is a linguistic construct. :)
His philosophy has done great harm all through academia. You can't blame him singlehandedly, because all those other people had to have been drawn to pessimism, disillusion, and nihilism. But it's a sad business. It has pretty well wrecked the country's English departments.
Derrida taught a course at NYU for many years, and I met him at a reception. Everyone was fawning all over him. I found him impossible to talk to.
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