Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:20:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Sureyyya Evren <sureyyyaevren-AT-yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [postanarchism] Derrida is Dead hos linkmis. tam weblog havasi. kisisel, teorik, icice. derrida oldu meydan baudrillard'a kaldi! baudrillardciligin zirve donemi olabilir bu donem:) Matt Christie <matt.christie-AT-gmail.com> wrote: For a rare thoughtful piece, please see href="http://spurious.typepad.com/spurious/2004/10/if_i_were_less_.html">here. -Matt On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 13:54:59 -0700 (PDT), Jason Michael Adams wrote: > > > October 9, 2004 > > Derrida, French Father of Deconstructionism, Dies at > 74 > > By REUTERS > > Filed at 1:30 p.m. ET > > PARIS (Reuters) - French philosopher Jacques Derrida, > the founder of the school of deconstructionism, has > died of cancer at the age of 74, France Info radio > said on Saturday. > > It said Algerian-born Derrida had died on Friday of > cancer of the pancreas. > > Derrida, who divided his time between France and the > United States, argued that the traditional way we read > texts makes a number of false assumptions and that > they have multiple meanings which even their author > may not have understood. > > His thinking gave rise to the school of > deconstruction, a method of analysis that has been > applied to literature, linguistics, philosophy, law > and architecture. > > It is heralded as showing the multiple layers of > meaning at work in language, but was described by > critics as nihilistic. > > ``In him, France gave the world one of the greatest > contemporary philosophers, one of the major figures in > the intellectual life of our time,'' French President > Jacques Chirac said in a statement after learning of > his death. > > ``Through his work, he sought to find the free > movement which lies at the root of all thinking.'' > > Born into a Jewish family in El-Biar in Algeria on > July 15, 1930, Derrida began studying philosophy at > the elite Ecole Normale Superieure in 1952 and taught > at Paris's Sorbonne University from 1960 to 1964. > > From the early 1970s, Derrida spent much of his time > teaching in the United States, at such universities as > Johns Hopkins, Yale and the University of California > at Irvine. > > His work focused on language. Challenging the idea > that a text has an unchangeable meaning, Derrida said > the author's intentions cannot be accepted > unconditionally and that this means each text can have > multiple meanings. > > His ideas were seen as showing unavoidable tensions > between the ideals of clarity and coherence that > govern philosophy. > > He was seen as the inheritor of ``anti-philosophy,'' > the school of thought of predecessors such as Sigmund > Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger. > > Derrida's work was at times controversial. Some staff > at Britain's Cambridge University protested when the > university proposed awarding him an honorary degree in > 1992, though he did eventually receive it. > > In the early 1980s he was detained when he left his > Prague hotel room for the airport after displeasing > Czechoslovakia's Communist authorities by giving a > lecture on deconstructionist theory. > > Derrida was once married to Sylvaine Agacinski, who is > now the wife of former Socialist Prime Minister Lionel > Jospin. Derrida and Agacinski had one son. > > ====> "Politics is the highest form of popular culture, and we who create the contemporary European pop culture consider ourselves politicians" > > - Neue Slowenische Kunst http://www.nskstate.com/ > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --- StripMime Warning -- MIME attachments removed --- This message may have contained attachments which were removed. Sorry, we do not allow attachments on this list. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---
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