Re: what is literature? the correct reading

>Daniel,
>
>If your reading is correct, then in order for Scottie's point to be valid
>he would have to demonstrate that "deconstructions" as a word (or
>"phenomenologies" or "existentialisms") is more like the word "MRI" or
>"psychoanalysis" than it is like "literature." I'd like to see that
>demonstration.
>
>Otherwise, this is just one more of Scottie's vague oversimplifications.
>

I see no problem with vagueness at this point, it worked when I read that
paper exclaiming Deconstruction as a warning. It is not an
oversimplification, but a point most without the necessary close reading of
Derrida can understand.
This is valid not for satisfying Omlor's demands but because for Derrida,
presence is secondary, it is an illusion constructed from, among other
things, the word.
Please excuse my Seseme Street reading of Voice and Phenomena.

>
>Otherwise, you are just a tourist with a typewriter and your conversation
>will remain ill-informed and of little use.

It's too cold here in NH for Bermuda shorts, Yocum.
>

Cordially,
John
>-

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Received on Fri Mar 7 12:26:35 2003