Word: derrida
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...course, Safire has been writing for more than 10 years, but before fourth grade, I didn't read anything that wasn't on the comic's page. After I moved up from Garfield--but before I ever read the famed deconstructionist Jacques Derrida--I was intrigued by Safire's dissection of political jargon and other cultural terms...
...real meaning of a story lies in his vast experience of the world, plus his ability (perhaps because of some memory disorders) to make extraordinary connections between events. I learned more about critical appoaches to art from this 76-year old man than I ever could from reading Jacques Derrida or Simone de Beauvoir...
...essay on exactitude, he arrives at a sensible and workaday solution to Jacques Derrida's worries about language as a representation of absence rather than presence: "the proper use of language... is one that enables us to approach things (present or absent) with discretion, attention, and caution, with respect for what things (present or absent) communicate without words...
Johnson's awareness of pedagogy as an ideological tool is not surprising, considering she began her career as literary wunderkind at "the Yale School" of criticism during the '70s, under mentors such as Derrida and de Man. She attacks former teachers and colleagues at the rival institution, with the exception of Derrida and de Man, for their blindness to sexist biases...
...institutions such as Harvard and Yale. Given the movement's inherently anti-Establishment impulses and commitment to the subversion of institutions, how does one explain, for example, its appearance last year in the cover story of The New York Times Magazine, with a full-page, color photo of Derrida...