Re: Try listening to the real ideas and ignore vitriolic attacks

Daniel,

You say,

"I have read Derrida..."

Then you cannot seriously believe your writing is in any way similar to his, not even "vaguely," as you suggested in your last post, unless you are simply delusional about your own prose.

You ask about my personal "Derrida." Some time ago on this list I posted my own, single page, introductory statement concerning what Derrida's work offered for me and for my interests and what I thought gave "deconstructions" their value and their rigor. It opened with the sentence "Deconstruction began as a warning." Perhaps you can find it in the archives. If not, I'll be happy to send you another copy privately. I will not, however, simply "chat" about these works here on this list in the way the discussion here has been taking place, without any specific reading or any specific shared working knowledge of the necessary primary texts. To do so, I believe, would only be to encourage further misleading vagaries and reductions and to work against the actual understanding of the specific works in question.

Again, I a more than willing to approach the subject in a detailed and careful and responsible way, through patient reading, once the time and my own schedule permit it, if enough readers are interested.

All the best,

--John
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Received on Wed Mar 5 13:35:14 2003