[lit-ideas] Re: Derrida Passes
- From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 19:55:39 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
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From: Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Oct 10, 2004 7:16 PM
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Derrida Passes
Who we are and what we
think about life and humanity and all that stuff depends largely on the
people we know -- or so I say.
A.A. Personally, I think it depends on who we are, not who we know. Everything
is jibberish until we're ready to absorb it. When the student is ready and all
that ...
M.G. I've never understood a single word
Derrida's said.
A.A. I've also tried him on a couple of occasions and came to the conclusion
that Derrida didn't care enough about his reader to take the trouble to write
as if anyone was going to read him. I concluded that deconstruction was
nonsense and high toned hog wash is just high toned hog wash.
M.G. I think I understood most of what Mayo said -- a lot of
which I thought was much too easily arrived at.
A.A. Like nearly everybody, even the educated.
M.G. I wonder, had Mayo and
Derrida had known each other personally, who would it have changed most?
A.A. Neither. People don't change unless something catastrophic happens. Two
weeks after the meeting, they wouldn't even have remembered each other.
M.G. The intellectual or the man of daily duty? My prejudice says the
intellectual -- maybe because he is "an intellectual". But maybe not.
Maybe non-intellectuals, despite their public scorn, feel greater respect
for intellectuals than the reverse and listen more closely -- if only they
knew the vocabulary.
A.A. How many intellectuals do you think know anything outside their narrow
field of expertise?
Andy Amago
Mike Geary
Memphis
----- Original Message -----
From: <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 3:33 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Derrida Passes
>
>
> In a message dated 10/9/2004 5:56:56 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> NYCEric@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
> Robert wrote :Jacques Derrida has died in Paris at the age of 74.
>
>
> Who will use the obvious "Derrida Deconstructs!" headline, I wonder?
>
>
> Thinking of the many connections between advertising copy and poetry,
>
>
> ---- Exactly.
>
> Incidentally, I was reading that on one occasion Cambridge (England)
> faculty
> protested against honouring Derrida with a doctorate or something. The
> note
> did not specify if the protest was successful, though. I suppose, via,
> implicature, it was.
>
> It is not said in the obituary if he had family in Paris. I wonder who
> will
> take care of the funeral, etc. -- but Geary should know about that.
>
> Cheers,
>
> JL
>
>
>
>
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