Re: The real problem...

As I say, wasting time...

Daniel,

You write, concerning Derrida:

"Yes, John he does not use the word deconstructionism..."

Actually, he does use the word, to refer to what other people have done. And
then to distinguish it from what he does. See my later post.

You say, about me and Derrida:

"You claim that you and him are radically different yet your rhetoric seems
indistinguishable."

Go back to where I made that point in my original post, entitled "Of me (by
comparison)," and you'll see that I specified precisely how our rhetorics are,
in a number of ways, drastically different.

And I am not appealing to Derrida's motives when I talk about his texts
relying on and never rejecting or refusing reason. I am relying on what the texts
say.

And Daniel, the old "texts have no shared meaning so how can you argue what
they mean" nonsense is a red-herring. As the citations in my long post
demonstrate, neither Derrida nor I are claiming that texts "stand alone" or have no
shared meaning. Quite the opposite. Derrida claims that the interpretation of
texts takes place within specific, fixed fields of meaning and determinate
shared discourses and also always in relation to other texts. In fact, I quoted
him at length saying precisely this.

This is why this discussion is a waste of time.

Finally, you say:

"You base your view of Derrida on all he has written...."

Yup. Imagine that.

I knew I was getting through to someone.

All the best,

--John

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