RE: misc responses

I guess my problem with Derrida is it's post modern or proto post modern
heart, which is that dash of Rat poison on the Pizza pie, want a slice? The
opened door for "it means what ever you want it to mean". I know this is
well scarred battle terrain but this topic reared its ugly head in another
list (radically different discourse though), and I have been pulling 12 hour
shifts here at work while we are doing disaster excercises, so a lot of time
on my hands.
 
Daniel

 Daniel,

Your mention of "his original thesis" called to mind Derrida's early essay
on origins and sources, "Qual Quelle: Valery's Sources." It's in his
*Margins of Philosophy*, U. of Chicago, 1989. In some ways, Derrida's work
actually begins with the question of origins -- his first extended
philosophical work is a reading of Husserl, focusing particularly on that
philosopher's *The Origin of Geometry* and the question of signs and
beginnings. It's called *Speech and Phenomena* and was published in 1973 by
Northwestern University Press. His first major work, *Of Grammatology,*
includes a lengthy reading of Rousseau's "Essay on the Origin of Languages."
And finally, and much more recently, the question of origin is rethought in
terms of culture and language education in his "Monolingualism of the Other
or The Prosthesis of Origin," published in book form by Stanford University
Press in 1998. Check it out.

Thanks all,

--John

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Received on Wed Dec 11 18:26:32 2002