Re: One last thought.

That is absolutely right, Daniel, that's exactly what he needs to do.
Or needed to do 15 years ago. He may have. There may have been a big
blow up in the late 80s, I don't know.

I do know the people he would have been criticizing were probably too
freaking stupid to even understand the basis of his critique, as
reflected in their literary criticism.

Jim

Yocum Daniel GS 21 CES/CEOE wrote:

> If what you say is true, Derrida or his heir needs to get out the
> belt and round up all those bratty kids.DanielPS I'll check the look
> Library for your recommendation, pray for my soul Scottie.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Omlor@aol.com [mailto:Omlor@aol.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 5:07 PM
> To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
> Subject: One last thought.
>
> Daniel,
>
> It is precisely because words cannot "mean whatever you want
> them to mean" that the differences are so clearly marked and
> re-marked between Hegel and Genet in *Glas*, between the
> tidy desire for resolution without excess, for communion
> without crumbs, for the disappearance of the voice in
> Hegel's work (especially in his *Phenomenology of Spirit*),
> and the messy and passionate insistence on excess, on
> uncertain lineage and parentage, on the need for the voice
> and the name, on spillage and joy in Genet, even as these
> two columns intertwine to pose further original,
> interesting, and complex challenges for readers and for the
> history of Western thought.
>
> Please read *Glas* to see a demonstration of this.
>
> Also, if you ever thought Derrida's might have suggested,
> even remotely, that words can "mean whatever you want them
> to mean," you should read his work on Algeria, including
> "Taking a Stand on Algeria," published in *Acts of Religion*
> (Routledge, 2002). Or his work on the law in "Force of Law"
> in the same volume.
>
> Even his reading of Kafka's *Before the Law* which does
> read, carefully and with painstaking patience, that divine
> little parable's problems of meaning, restricts its "general
> economy" of interpretation in many ways and with great,
> almost obsessive care for the specific language of the text.
>
> Reading, for Derrida, is always an act of respect and
> attention. Reading Derrida should be too.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --John
>

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