From: "Ann Klefstad" <klefkal-AT-cp.duluth.mn.us> Subject: Re: Jacques Derrida? Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 09:57:31 -0800 --Many snippets from: -------- John Young <jya-AT-pipeline.com> >> > Derrida does not distinguish between fiction and philosophy, > rather than yearing to escape it > via mad Caesar/God fairy tales. > > He does this by lively deconstruction of fiction and philosophy > and culture to show how lies and conceits are pilfered and > institutionalized, that is, sneakthief artifice, >what else can an artist intellectual do to escape > regular work. > > But that's our distinguishing human characteristic, I mean that's it--we can make things up. It's not something to sanction or mistrust, it's what we *do* as humans. We make things up, guided by webs and patterns of resemblance. Philosophers have always hated this, the corrosion of resemblance attacking identity. You know, I love philosophy, but only as a vice. AK --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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