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 > > > *********************************************************************** > RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY, Paul Zarembka, > editor, Elsevier Science > ******************** > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
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