Derrida ing the list
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Fri Mar 23 00:11:05 CST 2001
John Searle reports a conversation he once had (in
French) with Michel Foucault. Foucault, who was even more
opposed to
Derrida than Searle, stated that Derrida practiced the
method of "obscurantisme terroriste." When Searle asked
"What the
hell does that mean?", Foucault explained that Derrida
writes so obscurely you can't tell what he's saying--that's
the
obscurantism--and then when someone criticizes him, he can
always say, "You didn't understand me. You're an
idiot!"--that's
the terrorism.
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