Jacques Derrida dies

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Jacques Derrida, one of France's most famous philosophers, has died at the age of 74, it has been announced. Derrida died in a Paris hospital on Friday night, news agency AFP reported. He suffered from pancreatic cancer.

The loss of one of our time's great minds, who no doubt had a lot more work still in him. I was wondering what people here's opinion is of Derrida, and the theories he espoused? Is deconstruction theory dead, or is it a vital part of our world view today?

Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Saturday, 9 October 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

never heard of him. hate the french anyway, come to think of it i hate philosphers too. It's to do with my dad, he was both.

L.P.D! Webmaster (letpandasdie.com), Saturday, 9 October 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Why is it that the person with the least to contribute to a thread is invariably the first to answer?

nader (nader), Saturday, 9 October 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway, there is another, much better and more proper thread, and I direct your attention to it: Jacques Derrida RIP

Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Saturday, 9 October 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks KG, I just spied it.

nader (nader), Saturday, 9 October 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

But you see, by declaring Derrida dead, you are applying an objectivity to a view which is inherently subjective. Viz, death, which may in fact only be a simulated dis-reality (cf. Baudrillard); by increasing diminishment of conspicuous signifiers, one might be inclined to remediate the response of this "event" to transmeditate the meaning of postmodern proclivity towards perceptualism. Whereas Wittgensteinian ethics would postulate cultural concomity, perhaps this is only another transubstantive attempt at Lacanian digressive incunabulae as a means for hyperbolic Kincaidian fixations (see footnote 267). But on the subject of lapidary consensuality...

Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 9 October 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)


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