I suspect he'd have hated people doing that.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
It's even truer of Derrida. Much writing draws upon a few quotes from a small few essays, whereas he was a hugely prolific writer.
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Replying to @ianpacemain
Always the case. I like his work on Augustine.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @ianpacemain
It's always always true to say of nearly any theorist and any essay using their work 'but it's much more complex than this.'
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Replying to @HPluckrose
It can be interesting to ask many in the US who cannibalise Derrida, apparently, whether they have read him in French?
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Replying to @ianpacemain
I feel same way about religion. 'How can you comment on Islam when you haven't read Quran in Arabic?!' Don't care. What is happening RN?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
In the case of Derrida, there are massive issues about the possibility of translation, which his work itself dramatises.
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Replying to @ianpacemain
Again I see the comparison with religion. I think it depends very much on whether you want to defend sources or focus on impact.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Well, that depends how faithfully the sources have been represented. Actually, Derrida on Nietzsche is very interesting here.
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Replying to @ianpacemain
How faithfully the sources have been represented matters to those concerned abt defending the sources. What did Muhammad really mean?
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Far less to people concerned about how certain ideas have caught the zeitgeist and are impacting society right now.
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