Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 09:06:17 -0500
From: Reg Lilly <rlilly-AT-skidmore.edu>
Subject: Re: Jacques Derrida?


John Young wrote:
> 
> Derrida does not distinguish between fiction and philosophy,

	This isn't really accurate.  He would say that writing 'encompasses' both fiction (literature) philosophy, and just
about anything else that is meaningful (including painting and experience), and granted, he has shown the instable
character of genre (cf. for example, "The Law of Genre" or "Before the Law"), but he never says that Joyce or Celan or
Condillac -- about all of whom he has written -- are philosophers and he would never characterize Husserl or Hegel as
writers of fiction (*pace* their conceptions of truth!).  To the contrary, literature 'marks itself off' in a different
way or ways than does philosophical writing.  He has no problem with borders as long as they aren't conceived as
impermeable.

Regards,
Reg


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