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`DERRIDA' AN AMUSING PORTRAIT OF THE MASTER OF DECONSTRUCTION
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In the right academic circles, France's Jacques Derrida is the
Mick Jagger of cultural philosophy. He opens his mouth, and the girls
go nuts. Years ago, for his Yale lecture series, he even had groupies
- adoring flocks of young women who hogged the front rows and were
called the Derridettes. With Derrida, now 72, it's easy to understand
the appeal to grad students. He has an iconoclastic idea of identity,
and he conceived a complex critical philosophy known as
deconstruction, which essential...
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Wrestling With the Angel That Was Himself; Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint
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; Austerlitz, Saul Forward 10-22-2004 During the era of the Talmud, the period of the scholars known as the Amoraim (200-500 C.E.) was dedicated to the fleshing out of the sparse, cryptic pronouncements of their predecessors, the Tannaim. In an effort to make the rulings of the Tannaim more
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Derrida derided. (Jacques Derrida, deconstructionist philosopher) (Editorial)
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; WHAT does the title of this article mean? Is there a man, Derrida, who is the object of derision? Or is there a man who was a derider? Or is the reader himself being derided? The answer is yes. And no. That is deconstruction. The fixed meaning of a text dissolves, or os it is claimed, when its
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