Subject: Re: atheism
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 12:44:03 EST
In a message dated 1/20/00 9:51:58 AM Eastern Standard Time,
jjv@caesun.msd.ray.com writes:
<< It is hard to make any sense of what Derrida and his fellows are
talking about because they completely admit to the failure of language to
have absolute meaning. Because of deconstruction they can't really say
anything with a straight face. I think that's why they break down and
away from purely rational concepts. Once language is identified as
irrational and cubist there is little sanity in trying to exchange
rational ideas in traditional form through it.
-jay >>
There are better people than me on this list to answer you, but first I'd be
careful to distinguish Derrida from other postmodern writers. He doesn't
affirm, so far as I understand him, that language has no meaning, but that an
utterance can't be tied down to one single meaning. There is a world of
difference here.
Jim
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