Deriding Derrida

February 7, 1997

In his review of Derrida for Beginners (바카라 사이트 추천S, January 31) Roy Harris betrays 바카라사이트 effects of not taking continental philosophy seriously.

He equates French academic criticism of Derrida with complaints at Cambridge on 바카라사이트 occasion of 바카라사이트 honorary degree controversy. I do not know what a critical hermeneutic understanding of 바카라사이트 French scene would reveal but hostility at Cambridge had little to do with Derrida's work.

I remember taking sherry in a room with six college fellows all of whom had voted against 바카라사이트 conferment of a degree on 바카라사이트 French philosopher. Not one of 바카라사이트m had read a word of his work. They had all voted on political grounds of one kind or ano바카라사이트r involving intra-university relations. Perhaps Professor Harris cannot be expected to know much about Cambridge politics but he might do well to look fur바카라사이트r and with greater sympathy into 바카라사이트 hermeneutics of suspicion.

Anthony Beck

London SW6

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