[lbo-talk] Butler on Derrida

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Oct 26 06:28:52 PDT 2004


Chris Doss wrote:


>What's up with all the Derrida-bashing? I thought his
>stuff on Heidegger was annoying and the Post Card too,
>but Of Grammatology and Speach and Phenomena were not
>bad at all. His negative theology was pretty cool, if
>you're into that kind of thing.

You don't understand. If it hadn't been for Derrida and his posse, the masses would have come to consciousness, and the revolution would have happened. But instead they got confused by all this stuff about the slipperiness of meaning.

Doug



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