[lbo-talk] Conversation with Derrida

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Nov 4 16:04:41 PST 2009


On Nov 4, 2009, at 6:42 PM, Chris Doss wrote:


> Because if you're the kind of person who believes in "reason" (or
> science, or the good, or whatever) as the Salvation of Humanity, the
> notion that it is rooted in the nonrational (or the non-good, or non-
> whatever) is terrifying, because it points to the irrationality of
> your own belief.

Why does historicizing something - taking it out of the realm of timeless nature and inserting it into social processes - render it "irrational"?

Doug



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