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Okay, so he deliberately threw me by using a term in an in-group way in a book meant to explain things? Do you see how that is unhelpful? However, I put the boo
by Robin_Message 16y ago
Okay, so he deliberately threw me by using a term in an in-group way in a book meant to explain things? Do you see how that is unhelpful? However, I put the book on my wishlist after reading the parts I could; obviously I need to read the whole thing to have a proper opinion.
http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/al.html http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/al.html -- Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity (In Words of Four Letters or Less)
On the basis of your answers I shall read the Bennington suggested, but I must admit I'm not optimistic. Discernible external beliefs are not a deal-breaker; they are the point of the deal.
I would like to conclude there (feel free to have the last word; that is not an attempt to cut off the discussion on my terms, but merely to get on with some work :-) You have been somewhat persuasive and very civil in the face of my disagreement, thank you. Thank you also for your time, I owe you a beer/coffee (and by then maybe I can have done the reading and we can talk properly.)
- michael_dorfman 16y agoBefore you go ahead and order the Bennington, let me ask you a question: have you read much in the broader philosophical tradition? In other words, are you relatively up to speed on, say, Plato and Descartes and Kant, for example? If not, the Bennington isn't going to be of much use. Derrida situates himself within a particular tradition; it's (necessarily) hard to read him in isolation.