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12/10/2004: "Friday Night with Derrida"
I've been reading everything I can get my hands on in terms of practical application of Derrida. I've been through only a small fraction of the available literature, and have coem to realize how varied and broad-reaching a thinker he has become. I always have dismissed Derrida, mostly due to to the fact that I didn't understand him. Don't get me wrong: I still don't. But, I am beginning to warm up to neo-pragmatism also. If only to make it more politically efficacious . . .
I am reading Samuel Wheeler's "Deconstruction as Analytic Philosophy" (Stanford UP, 2000) right now. I've also decided to give John McDowell's "Mind and World" another spin over the break. But, for now, I keep thinking about Derrida.
Replies: 4 comments
on Saturday, December 11th, Dom Eggert said:
Hi. I'm a friend of Jason M.'s He just gave me the link to this.
It's funny that this should be the first entry I come across. I actually just wrote a paper on Derrida's later ethical writings, the latter half of which is on their practical application.
If you'd like a copy, I can send you one. I'm not sure how helpful it would be, but it might.
He is tough to understand, but one thing that's interesting in his aporetic writings is the critique/alternative he offers of (Hegelian and other) dialectical logic. I don't know how practical it is, though.
on Saturday, December 18th, faith said:
My interests in Derrida are the epistemological and semantic consequences of deconstruction. And I consider myself a Hegelian.
on Wednesday, December 22nd, Istvan said:
Take a look at "Reading McDowel", edited by Nicholas Smith and published by Routledge. It has some good articles that McDowell responds to (mainly by detailing the ways in which he thinks they've misunderstood.) If you can get a hold of it, its worth it. The Pippin essay is quite good.
on Wednesday, December 29th, faith said:
Thanks!
Yeah, I've seen that collection. McDowell's "Mind and World" is an amazing work. Pippin's book on Hegel was also exceptional.
