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So far, though, your challenge seems to consist in accusations that you have not yet substantiated. I'm not saying you can't make a great case but tha...

It's related. The man relies upon a code to 'escape' his own annihilation in a certain sense. Even as a corpse he can talk. 'Some are born posthumousl...

This is where I do my bit and say that 'you' are the thing that gets in trouble if 'you' break the rules. Or gets a Scooby snack when 'you' are a good...

I agree with the implication that maybe he was wrong on that point. That's quite a can of worms in itself, the private ownership of the de facto town ...

Right. But what I was referring to is this: I presume that Sokal's annoyance with these 'imposters' inspired the prank in the first place. It seems th...

I'm basically progressive and liberal, I guess, but I don't like institutions betraying their principles in fits of topical self-righteousness. Areopa...

. Yes indeed, and outside too. But inside is sadder in a way, just as dirty cops are worse than other criminals.

. Same here. I hate the idea of being trapped in a tribal bubble. I guess my fantasy of the philosopher is tied up to some kind of neutral Shakespeare...

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It was a great prank, and some French thinkers have been guilty of playing fast and loose with concepts from other fields, and some of them just suck,...

I have (somewhat), and I like Husserl. And that theme of a unity to come also appears valuably in Gadamer's theory of interpretation. I think it also ...

I would maybe say here though that concepts evolve because we try to trap them. They have a life because we keep trying to put them death. Philosophy ...

I basically agree with all of that.

OK, but I can't personally see the big gap between Derrida and Nietzsche or Derrida and Wittgenstein. Not now that the movement is a relic and basical...

Sure. I'm down with that. I'd just stress the interdependence of the concepts involved. And I'd look to local practical/context. The most recent conte...

Continuing the thought above about the uselessness or Derrida (and Kant and Hume and calculus and ...), I offer a quote from Hobbes about power. The c...

Perhaps, but isn't this metaphor of a ghost precisely one more such attempt? I don't see how Derrida isn't doing basically the same old song and dance...

Well fucking played!

OK but the concept of alteration depends on the endurance of the same. I've been mentioning the self that functions as a player on the great stage of ...

A very generous comment, sir! For what's worth, I'm glad someone as clearly informed and enthusiastic about this stuff is here for me talk with. And I...

He had an illegitimate child with a student (or ex-student, can't remember when the affair started.) And the Peeters bio suggests (gently, respectfull...

Exactly, and this is a Heideggerian/Derridean point too. What makes rationality possible is a system of inherited concepts. But this same system makes...

Oh I recall Derrida avoiding 'ambiguity' somewhere for some sanctified synonym, but that's a point for insiders. I'm probably just the right amount of...

You make a good point, but it's hard to see how a sketching of the limits of philosophical knowledge isn't one more project that tries to get at the r...

Very well put !

Again...the kind of point I find in Derrida.

Wittgenstein and Derrida were both beautiful men. That probably helped them and hurt them at the same time. Derrida was especially annoyingly attracti...

Purity from irrationality, from prejudice. Philosophy is sin to the holy men precisely in its "Satanic" humanism. We humans decide what is true and go...

A Derridean point maybe, and I agree. There's always some notion of the proper in effect, something that got there before we did, a background against...

You are of course entitled to such a view, but I rate Wittgenstein highly. Given the general reputation of Wittgenstein among scholars, I think it's j...

In my heart of hearts, I'm a sucker for presentations of the human form and face. But I found a nice quote relevant to Ad's black paintings. As I see ...

I thought you were afraid of me. Good to see you off your back, toy soldier.

Well put. In a way it's always doing this, because it's explicitly dependent upon the very ideas it challenges. It's even banal, since in general we'v...

Thanks for the kind words! It keeps me chugging along. I also clarify my own understanding by digging for paraphrases and quotes. It's an endless task...

I think it's fair to say that Derrida can be annoyingly poetical and rhetorical. I'm on a Brandom kick lately, and he's almost too dry and longwinded ...

I'm passionately committed to elusiveness of meaning in such anti-practical contexts, but I feel like this motherfucker is as chill as possible. Art i...

Indeed. And it isn't axiomatic that grokking Derrida is the best way to spend one's time. Some people just naturally monger concepts. They really are ...

There's quite an industry of gentle introductions to famous and famously difficult thinkers. Gasché is writing for insiders. But here's a decent expos...

This is a pre-Hegelian vision of truth, that one simply refutes a strong thinker...from the 'outside.' What Derrida does with Saussure is read his rad...

It was pretty accurate, from my limited POV. It's just difficult stuff. And you need to see examples for that summary to have definite and significant...

Excellent quote. I've only seen and loved the manifestoes. I've had good luck with artists. Like Ad Reinhart say (kwotes below.) ////// Only a bad art...

That's the attitude I remember. Personally I think Derrida is a more consistently powerful thinker, but Sartre has powerful moments, and not only in N...

@"Streetlight" has clearly fucking read lots of Derrida and many many other thinkers, while certain other rowdy participants have clearly not. Folks s...

. The tricky issue is that the meaning of 'actually exist' is caught up in what we are discussing here. Do we (can we?) ever 'actually know' what we a...

I'm glad I could give my own little testimony. On the Plato thing, which I didn't get to, I think his work suggests that Platonic forms are unrealisti...

This is one of its virtues, and it's just good ol' Western rationality at work, looking for weakness in totalizing systems, looking for plot holes and...

Speaking loosely, his 'freeplay' seems like some sunny cousin of nihilism. Derrida was well aware of Camus and Sartre (he continued to respect Nausea)...

For context, I'm a person who become fascinated with Derrida and put a substantial but still non-expert amount of time into some of his texts, primari...

Small point maybe, but what do you imagine to be the center of a system of differences without positive elements? I don't see a center for language it...