Thank you for writing this. I wish I could upvote you more than once. This is a very accurate way of describing him. He used the usual tactics, creating a cult like following and dismissing those poor souls that…
> So, dismissing him out of hand (especially rejections based on his ostensible obscurantism) is akin to saying that Donald Knuth is no good. This is an invalid analogy if I ever saw one. Let me try to make it more…
> Derrida is one of the most important continental philosophers of the 20th century. I never stated otherwise. What we both wrote is in no way contradictory.
Why is this here? What's the relevance? For those who don't know, Derrida was a French postmodern intellectual charlatan with absolutely no redeeming qualities. A good example of what one should strive not to become.
Thank you for writing this. I wish I could upvote you more than once. This is a very accurate way of describing him. He used the usual tactics, creating a cult like following and dismissing those poor souls that…
> So, dismissing him out of hand (especially rejections based on his ostensible obscurantism) is akin to saying that Donald Knuth is no good. This is an invalid analogy if I ever saw one. Let me try to make it more…
> Derrida is one of the most important continental philosophers of the 20th century. I never stated otherwise. What we both wrote is in no way contradictory.
Why is this here? What's the relevance? For those who don't know, Derrida was a French postmodern intellectual charlatan with absolutely no redeeming qualities. A good example of what one should strive not to become.