[lit-ideas] Re: Derrideana
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 11:07:10 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 8/26/2013 8:25:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes in "The difference between speech and text
-- &
deconstruction" about Derrida and 'deconstruction' and 'demythologising',
and I see P. Enns has written on the distinction he finds between these terms.
L. Helms writes:
"Apparently he was much more influential in the US than in France. Why?"
L. Helm quotes from an online source:
“...[D]id this add to his appeal in the United States? In America, Derrida’
s work was often deployed in battles over identity. Unlike in France, his
first US readers encountered his theory in an atmosphere of social upheaval.
... In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom inveighed against
deconstruction for enabling America’s “relativist” turn—for conferring
philosophical legitimacy on an insidious quest to undermine reason, truth, and
reality itself.) Was it just a coincidence that his first major American
translator, Gayatri Spivak, the scholar who plucked the term “deconstruction”
out of Of Grammatology and put it under a spotlight in her influential
preface to the book, was an Indian-born US transplant and a woman?"
For the record, the wiki entry (yes, public domain, I know) allows to
'show' (rather than 'hide') influences of Derrida -- "influenced", it goes. The
rather list goes, as per below, in ps -- NOT in alphabetic order --
And I would add, to the list most importantly, Derrida. For surely Derrida
influenced Derrida. Oddly, he did not influence Grice. I have NOT
doublechecked the list of people who did influence Derrida (which is hidden
from
view in Wikipedia, unless you make it show).
A long list, above -- making generalisations of the type L. Helm reports
rather 'interesting'.
Cheers,
Speranza
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida
Richard Rorty
Paul de Man
Bernard Stiegler
Jean-Luc Nancy
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
Ernesto Laclau
Chantal Mouffe
Judith Butler
Luce Irigaray
Julia Kristeva
Louis Althusser
Peter Eisenman
Edward Said
Homi K. Bhabha
Gayatri Spivak
John Caputo
Mario Kopić
Peter Sloterdijk
Avital Ronell
Catherine Malabou
Geoffrey Hartman
J. Hillis Miller
Harold Bloom
Costas Douzinas
Martin Hägglund
Zygmunt Bauman
Simon Glendinning
Mark C. Taylor
Robert Magliola
Ian Parker
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