More on Derrida

[Paul Mackin]

On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 09:37, Ghetta Life wrote:
> http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/23/nov04/notes.htm
> 
> When the French philosopher Jacques Derrida died last month at seventy-four, 
> the response was loud, passionate, and predictably divided according to 
> demographic origin. If the response came from outside the academy, it tended 
> to be bemused or critical. If a response came from the purlieus of the 
> professoriate, however, it was likely to be sorrowful, eulogistic, even 
> starry-eyed
> 
Interesting. However p-listers who might be disillusioned by
Deconstruction and Postmodernist thought would be well-advised not to
take succor from the New Criterion. The magazine would like nothing
better than to erase the 60s, phrasing this stance as a defense of High
Modernism.

I notice that in Terry Eagleton's new book, the stated purpose of which
is to try and pave the way beyond postmodernism, the name of Hilton
Kramer is not mentioned as a a possible ally.





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