I "keep coming back" to challenge, as I've said, Derrida's apologists & expositors. — 180 Proof
Applying a paraphrase of Hitchen's Razor: what can be expressed without substantiated clarity can also be dismissed without substantiated clarity. And yet, I'm sure my dismissals of Derrida-ism are far clearer than anything Derrida "defers".So far, though, your challenge seems to consist in accusations that you have not yet substantiated. — igjugarjuk
When and where academia becomes an inbred clique of self-serving poseurs, it is right to ridicule them. — Olivier5
philosophical approaches that disparage traditional, conventional ways of seeing things. — Clarky
↪Moliere Derrida's goal/s with "deconstruction" is one thing, the implications and applicability of what he proposes are quite another thing; and it's the self-refuting nature of the latter – in effect, reducing 'all' truth-making discourses to 'nothing but' tendentious rhetoric – which many critics like me take issue with. A semiotic sleight-of-mind perfomative contradiction confidence trick "that opens up space for"...??? — 180 Proof
It's just not always easy to decide whether something is bullshit. — igjugarjuk
I think reading Derrida can be enjoyed if it is read as a species of arcane literature. where it is his imaginative gymnastics that are being admired, but I don't take it seriously as philosophy. — Janus
↪Joshs Right, I don't deny that others find him philosophically interesting, and perhaps if I put the requisite effort in I might discover more there than I thought. It just doesn't seem likely to me at this stage, but I do allow for a change of attitude — Janus
I’m reading his biography right now, and I’m starting to think that his extremely neurotic and depressive personality entered into his writing in the form of endless asides, apologies, digressions and ass coverings , and this is a large part of what makes it so tortuous to read him. — Joshs
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