[lbo-talk] Derrida dead

[Michael Dawson]

Yeah, and it was fun to watch at Yale in the early 1970s, where 
Bloom, Hartman, and de Man (with occasional visits from Derrida) were 
scandalizing the old farts like Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn 
Warren. Lots of disapproving clucks were heard from those nearing 
retirement. (Brooks, teaching Faulkner, threw in a few defenses of 
the Confederacy in between defenses of the concept of Evil.) Funny to 
see a bunch of lefties 30-35 years later sounding like the Fugitives.

Doug

Using Derrida to pry open The Canon = burning down your house to roast a
chicken.