Sunday, October 10, 2004

the death of jaques derrida...

TallSkinnyKiwi's blog reads...

"Derrida added scepticism to a world of certitudes where every word had a final meaning and everything appeared to be simple." Dr.C.Rajendran, comment on BTV News

"France has given the world one of its greatest contemporary philosophers, one of the major intellectual figures of our time". Jacques Chirac, the French president, News Telegraph.

"Architects and designers could claim to take a deconstructionist approach to buildings by abandoning traditional symmetry and creating amorphously shaped spaces. The filmmaker Woody Allen titled one of his movies "Deconstructing Harry," to suggest that his protagonist could best be understood by breaking down and analyzing his neurotic contradictions." Twincities

Derrida died on Friday...


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