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Derrida is one of those guys, that if you find a fan of his, you have almost certainly found someone who has a love of complicated verbiage over simple straight
by TheMagicHorsey 12y ago
Derrida is one of those guys, that if you find a fan of his, you have almost certainly found someone who has a love of complicated verbiage over simple straightforward explanations.
Derrida takes a really simple concept and then dresses it up in so much complicated irrelevant nonsense that you have to take 30 minutes to deconstruct and understand an essay, that could be sufficiently restated in perhaps a paragraph of clear English.
- _delirium 12y agoIs this a generic comment, or based on reading the linked interview? He doesn't seem particularly verbose to me in the interview.
- TheMagicHorsey 12y agoAccidentally commented on the main post instead of the comment where someone said Derrida is one of the most important philosophers of the 20th Century or something like that.
- coldtea 12y ago>Derrida takes a really simple concept and then dresses it up in so much complicated irrelevant nonsense that you have to take 30 minutes to deconstruct and understand an essay, that could be sufficiently restated in perhaps a paragraph of clear English. Can you give an example? Because I've read Derrida (and other continental and US philosophers) and I've not seen that. It should be easy. Just post an essay of his, and then your paragraph of clear English that "sufficiently restates" it. I find that most people conflate "sufficiently restates" with something like Cliffs Notes. Or with "seeing the movie" (e.g. War And Peace) instead of reading the book. Or even worse with some general "plot", like: "War and Peace is the story of some families in Russia when Napoleon invades and a guy that tries to kill him" as opposed to the whole philosophical, artistic, literature, poetic etc content of the book.