Derrida Meets His Own Deconstruction



Jacques Derrida, whose work I read plenty of in graduate school, died today of complications from pancreatic cancer. He was a significant part of my academic career; I associate his name and work with some of my best times with teachers and fellow students at the University of Chicago, where I saw Derrida give a series of brilliant lectures. I'm saddened by his death. And I don't appreciate the emphasis on his "abstruseness" and "obscurantism" in the obits I've read so far. The man was an original thinker and deserves a very high place in the history of modern philosophy.

Posted: Sun - October 10, 2004 at 12:20 AM           |

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