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.
John

It was exaggeration for illustration, I guess I overestimated my target
audience. As an aside, Scottie, shoot me if I ever truly sound like
Jacques.
Daniel
        
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.
        John

Please resend.
        Daniel

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

        Till then, I'll bring the beer.
        Daniel

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Received on Wed Mar 5 15:33:23 2003