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REMEMBERING JACQUES DERRIDA
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To the Editor:
I'm sure I speak for thousands of readers when I say how surprised and
distressed I was to read Jonathan Kandell's ungracious and ill-informed
obituary of Jacques Derrida. When a major intellectual dies, it is
surely not customary for the Times to assign his obituary to a
small-minded partisan who will devote himself to denigration rather than
explanation. Mr. Kandell views Derrida's work with annoyed
incomprehension and quotes many journalists and a few academics who
share his attitude, but he did not bother to interview a single
philosopher or theorist who could speak in an informed way about
Derrida's importance. In reviewing Derrida's life as they did, Mr.
Kandell and the Times have gone to great lengths to put the bitch back in
obituary.
Lars Engle
Professor of English
University of Tulsa
Tulsa, OK
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