[lit-ideas] Derrida, a "French" philosopher
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 12:24:08 EDT
In a message dated 7/6/2009 10:32:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Searle launched a very public attack on
> Derrida's appointment to Yale(?), claiming that Derrida was not a
> philosopher
----
I tend to remember that the bourah (?) 'noise' about this was from the
_French_ department of Yale. I tend to remember that Derrida (whom I met in
Buenos Aires when lecturing at the "Students' Center of the Buenos Aires
University" on Calle Corrientes, Centro Rojas, introduced by Alan Pauls -- he
is Algerian-French --, Derrida was) published mainly in the Journal of
French Studies at Yale.
----
O. T. O. H., I have also met Searle, and perhaps he was thinking he could
with a double affiliation on both coasts of the USA? He loves Berkeley,
though, and the wine cellar he keeps there. (I met Searle in Buenos Aires, at
the University of Buenos Aires, too -- and have corresponded with him --
and we talked quite a bit about Grice).
Grice, in "Aristotle" (PPQ 1989) considers 'healthy', and other adjectives
used by Aristotle to illustrate 'analogy'.
What _is_ healthy? food, the life habit, a person, the cow? etc.
Ditto, he uses "French".
What _is_ French?
He considers, 'French poem' as meaning --
either:
poem written in French
poem written by a Frenchman
poem written in French by a Frenchman
poem written in any language by a Frenchman
poem witten in French by a non-Frenchman (e.g. a Japanese)
poem written in French by someone who does not hold a French passport
etc.
Ditto, for 'philosophy' -- Ergo: Derrida.
I think Derrida is untranslatable, and fun.
Cheers,
J. L. Speranza
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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