Derrida, and Is Emory Bortz on the bus?

[jolly]

"All I can see seems to be some irrational hatred (which I don't 
understand) of Jacques Derrida."
 
You didn't read, or simply overlooked my points about Heidegger's and Derrida's idealism--which is a big deal, ideologically speaking.  Read some sections of "Of Grammatology" as well as CS Peirce's semiotic theory  and tell me if Derrida correctly covers  Peirce's ideas at the end of Chap. 3. --{Hint: he doesn't).    It is not hatred, nor is it irrational: it is more like a strong distaste for the exceedingly verbose or jesuistical, and for someone would dismiss the tradition of western science and philosophy with a cheesy neo-logism: "logocentric."   
 
 Es toot mir Leid.  I have strayed a bit too much from the Pynchonian I guess--however I will stick to my guns and  assert Pynchon's enterprise is not post-modernist, at least in its Derridean sense.  Remember in COL 49,when Oedipa questions Emory Bortz and the beer swilling grad. students regarding Wharfinger's the Courier's Tragedy? "Pick some words. Them we can talk about."  There are many things going on, but I think it is intended mainly  as a not-so-nice satire of academic belle-lettrism and "textualism"..... 

		
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