cop shows and postmodernism redux

[Catherine Driscoll]

At 16:05 18/02/99 -0500, you wrote:
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>Aren't Derrida and Irigaray, and Levi-Strauss for that matter, doing
regular old Hegelian dialectics but just plagerizing it ? Any Hegelian
knows that all oppostions are a unity and struggle of opposites, not just
an opposition. Levi-Strauss's binary oppositions are just the beginning of
his process.

I wasn't claiming L-S as a 'deconstructionist'. 
Derrida is indebted to Hegel yes. The crucial (though not sole) difference
is in the idea of synthesis. 

Catherine