Re: not playing so nice

yikes, correction, <i>Of Grammatology</i>

And John -- the very next thing I said, was that the basis is logos. I don't think that would be a concession to Derrida. Can you also clarify?

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From: Luke Smith <jlsmith3@earthlink.net>
Sent: 08/11/03 07:51 PM
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
Subject: Re: not playing so nice

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> If employing faculties of reason means that "speech and thought habits lend
themselves to ethnocentrism," this would suggest that someone is only
acquainted with the contexts of their own speech and thought habits, and not
others? or, if they are acquainted with others, they are not capable of
working within that other context. And then, you?????????re also saying that such
differences in context matter a lot?

Well, I guess people could be that petty and provincial, or differences in
environment could lead to differences in reasoning techniques that are
irreconcilable. Probably, that's a debate for psychologists, but then...

How does Derrida escape "presence?" How does anyone, even someone who
acknowledges it exists, presumably unlike the provincialist who thinks his
beliefs are not based on a history/environment unique to himself? The
inescapability of "presence," if it's true, would be quite an indictment of the way
people think -- inevitably, though.

Should we just be content with it?

What I got from a cursory reading of <i>On Grammatology</i> (and I will
head to the library tomorrow to see if I can grab it again, for a more
thorough read), was that choice I cited, with language and thought. I feel like
language can express the speaker's thoughts, something objective/true about
what that speaker's perspective, which launched me into stuff about Truth
that you didn't think was relevant.

Derrida doesn't say anything clear to me, personally. Certainly, he makes
important claims that you're inferring, but Jim, you seem to express some
of them with a clarity that doesn't appear anywhere in the text on which
you're commenting. So how much of that is Derrida, and how much is what you
infer, reading it?

This post has a lot of questions, because I don't want to argue against
something you're not saying. So clarify. Please.

luke
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