RE: vive ! (One last thought)

Yea but in other places he seems to take it all back, oh well, you're a
better man than me Charlie Brown.
 
Daniel

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From: Omlor@aol.com [mailto:Omlor@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 12:31 PM
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
Subject: 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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Received on Fri Dec 13 15:04:11 2002