NP Derrida

[Otto]

Thanks for translation, Kai.
I wonder what problem you've got with this speech:

> confronted with this crime (...) my compassion, aiming at all innocent
> victims, is boundless <

This could have well be said in NYC too, and about the rest: some Europeans
see some things different and therefor it's important that the anti-terror
coalition is so broad and includes other voices like Arabian & Asian states.
Simply denying the errors of the past in the present situation automatically
will bring up new injustice and guarantee that the goal, the end of the
terror, will not be reached. I have nothing to object against his words.
It's in no way to compare to what Stockhausen or Dario Fo have said.

Otto

ps if (when) Schill becomes chief-cop in HH, are you moving to the
underground?
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>
>  in his thank-you speech, derrida - i'm translating for you from
> page 47 of today's faz - said: "confronted with this crime,
> i do believe in the political  innocence of nobody. and if my
> compassion, aiming at all innocent victims, is boundless, then
> because it does not end with those who lost their lives on 9/11
> in the united states. this is my interpretation of what that justice, for
> some days now according to the white house an 'infinite' one,
> would have to be: not to absolve oneself from own mistakes,
> own injustice, the errors of one's own politics - and be it in the
> moment one has to pay the most terrible price."
>
>  me wonders whether derrida would have said this in nyc, too ...
>
>  but our philosophers they have to stand above the moment, haven't they?
>
>  achtung: smarty attack!
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>
> kfl
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>
> Otto schrieb:
> > Samstag, 22. September 2001
> > Jacques Derrida geehrt
> > Philosophiepreis an "Scharlatan"
> >
> > http://www.n-tv.de/2723643.html
> >