Subject: Re: atheism
From: jason varsoke (jjv@caesun.msd.ray.com)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 09:44:43 EST
Jim said:
> What's even funnier is that post-modernism sometimes resorts to the language
> of mysticism when it seeks to actually explain phenomena rather than just
> deconstruct our views of the phenomena...
>
> for example, Derrida said in an interview that language works "By faith" :)
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
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