Re: vive ! (One last thought)

One other thing, since I am still smiling at Daniel's silliness,

One of the reasons that his nonsense is so painful and yet so awkwardly funny
in this case is that in the very essay that he has supposedly attempted to
read, Derrida not only does *not* argue that "communication is dead," but in
fact comes to exactly the opposite conclusion.

The last line of this essay, if I remember it right, is "Being speaks always
and everywhere throughout language." Derrida seeks, in this essay, to
examine this assumption, recognizing it and *affirming* it to begin with. He
understands that not only is communication not dead, it almost all we have,
it's everywhere, it's crucial, it is the stuff of our existence and the
subject par excellence for philosophy and for a reading of the Western
philosophical tradition. Derrida celebrates the importance of and indeed the
crucial importance of communication as a concept and as an archive even as he
seeks to analyze the historically complex and difficult relationship between
language and Being. He writes always of his work being an "affirmative"
gesture in this regard.

Daniel's one-liner has it all so spectacularly wrong that one wonders why, in
public, he even bothers discussing material he knows so very little about.

But such can sometimes be life on listservs, I suppose.

All the best,

--John

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