derr342

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   by derr342 12y ago

   Thank you for writing this. I wish I could upvote you more than once. This is a very accurate way of describing him. He used the usual tactics, creating a cult like following and dismissing those poor souls that actually tried to understand
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   by derr342 12y ago

   > So, dismissing him out of hand (especially rejections based on his ostensible obscurantism) is akin to saying that Donald Knuth is no good. This is an invalid analogy if I ever saw one. Let me try to make it more accurate. For Knuth to
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   by derr342 12y ago

   > Derrida is one of the most important continental philosophers of the 20th century. I never stated otherwise. What we both wrote is in no way contradictory.
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   by derr342 12y ago

   Why is this here? What's the relevance? For those who don't know, Derrida was a French postmodern intellectual charlatan with absolutely no redeeming qualities. A good example of what one should strive not to become.