Re: Jacques Derrida dies

From: ajit sinha (sinha_a99@YAHOO.COM)
Date: Mon Oct 11 2004 - 00:53:59 EDT


This is a sad day for all intellectuals. I was hoping
to see him at the College de France next year.
ajit sinha
--- Paul Zarembka <zarembka@BUFFALO.EDU> wrote:

> Jacques Derrida, the French thinker once described
> as the most influential
> philosopher in the world, has died at the age of 74
> in a Paris hospital.
> The controversial theorist was diagnosed with
> aggressive pancreatic cancer
> last year.
>
> Derrida, whose death was announced by the office of
> the French President
> Jacques Chirac, has been credited with the invention
> of three philosophical
> concepts which dominated late 20th century thinking:
> 'postmodernism',
> 'poststructuralism' and 'deconstruction', though in
> later years he showed
> growing irritation as the words passed into daily
> use.
>
> In a recent interview, he said the word
> 'deconstruction' had even
> penetrated a description of a rabbit stew which he
> had seen in a newspaper.
> 'Deconstructed rabbit! I saw it in an article in the
> New York Times !' he
> said.
>
> Derrida grew up in El-Biar, Algeria, moving to
> France at the age of 19.
> From 1952 he studied at Paris's Ecole Normale
> Superieur under two French
> philosophical greats, Michel Foucault and Louis
> Althusser.
>
> Although he faced deep suspicion from the British
> philosophical tradition
> for his grand theorising - 20 philosophers objected
> to his honorary degree
> granted by Cambridge - he remained a towering figure
> in world philosophy.
>
> He died with one great disappointment: he would have
> liked to follow in the
> footsteps of his illustrious predeccesor, the writer
> Albert Camus, who
> played in goal for Algeria's football team. 'I
> wanted to be a professional
> soccer player, but I had to give it up because I was
> not good enough,' he
> once said.
>
>
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1323927,00.html
>
>
>
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> RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY,  Paul Zarembka,
> editor, Elsevier Science
> ********************
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