Catherine Driscoll wrote:
> what harm? precisely what *harm* has Derrida done? or, ok, even loosely,
> what *harm*?
It is probably wool gathering to claim that *any* book (including *Mein Kampf* for that matter) has done harm. Harm may well be done under the banner of some book, but that is a quite different matter. Christianity has done enormous harm, as has the United States, but I don't think that harm can be attributed directly to the two testaments or to the u.s. constitution. One possible exception is the Book of Revelations (which many early Xtian thinkers wanted to exclude from the canon). But even that probably only triggered nuts rather than caused them.
It is certainly mere extravagance to accuse Derrida of doing harm -- some philosophy was bound to come along or be invented to cover the asses of the Generation of '68 in their retreat. One can ignore him or learn from him -- but ranting about him seems merely silly.
Carrol