i'm warming up to derrida. i used to direct the classic complaints at him and deconstruction. the problem was i didn't understand him that well, but i'm more receptive now and this interview certainly helped.
So that part where he is talking about how English has become hegemonic, and that has it own dangers and how he is glad he can still speak French reminded me of Ender's Game. Specifically, the part where it talks about how Bernard still spoke standard (the lingua franca of the future) with a French accent because of the French and their arrogant separatism. Of course, we never get to hear Bernard's rebuttal, which I'm sure Derrida would echo.
Nice view on nationalism and of what to put on its place, but that doesn't follow that there aren't universal laws that should guide human affairs, in fact his view supports that there are such laws.
@realitycheck888 "We" remember? Who are "we"? You are ofcourse referring to Western Civilization. So we are then simply dealing with concentric circles of culture here, Western languages being crafted out of common Latin and Greek roots. Aristotle will never be more popular than Confucius in China. The fact that there are larger circles does not negate the existence and impact of the smaller ones.
i'm warming up to derrida. i used to direct the classic complaints at him and deconstruction. the problem was i didn't understand him that well, but i'm more receptive now and this interview certainly helped.
It's a privilege to be able to listen to this. Thank you very much.
fascinating series to hear a great thinker!
I love this series.
So that part where he is talking about how English has become hegemonic, and that has it own dangers and how he is glad he can still speak French reminded me of Ender's Game. Specifically, the part where it talks about how Bernard still spoke standard (the lingua franca of the future) with a French accent because of the French and their arrogant separatism. Of course, we never get to hear Bernard's rebuttal, which I'm sure Derrida would echo.
In actual world we see the crisis of the center, we see the explosion of a difference that was jammed by the metaphysics of presence .
Nice view on nationalism and of what to put on its place, but that doesn't follow that there aren't universal laws that should guide human affairs, in fact his view supports that there are such laws.
@waxinggrasshopper
How much did he get from Heidegger here that Heidegger didn't get from Nietzsche?
I'd like to deconstruct that hegemonic neck-tie of his, you guys feel me?
@realitycheck888
"We" remember? Who are "we"? You are ofcourse referring to Western Civilization. So we are then simply dealing with concentric circles of culture here, Western languages being crafted out of common Latin and Greek roots. Aristotle will never be more popular than Confucius in China. The fact that there are larger circles does not negate the existence and impact of the smaller ones.
05:40 "Aljebric Esperanto"