[lit-ideas] Re: Derrida -- "abstruse theorist"
- From: Michael Chase <goya@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:29:25 +0200
Le 13 oct. 04, =E0 20:56, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx a =E9crit :
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> Mmm. "A. C. Grayling". I wonder: what gender, ethnicity, or, indeed
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> I don't think Jack (as I call him) Derrida made a strong point about
> geographical origin. He never acknowledged his motherland (Algier),=20
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> himself, rather, as a French ("Gallois").
M.C. He was also a Jew, of course, and that was the aspect stressed by=20=
Habermas in his tribute to JD in Lib=E9ration; he situates him in the=20
same tradition as Adorno and Levinas.
Best, MC
Michael Chase
(goya@xxxxxxxxxxx)
CNRS UPR 76
7, rue Guy Moquet
Villejuif 94801
France
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