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IN MEMORIAM JACQUES DERRIDA
ADDITIONAL LETTERS TO THE NEW YORK TIMES ON BEHALF OF MEMBERS OF THE UCI COMMUNITY: YVES-ALAIN BOIS: If you would like to add your name to the NY Times / In Memoriam page, please register here. (It may take 24 hours before your name appears publicly.) If you have questions, please contact Julia Reinhard Lupton, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, UC Irvine.
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LETTER BY DENIS HOLLIER October 11, 2004 To the editor: I can not believe that, in an obituary following the death of one of the most original and influential thinkers of our generation, someone whom so many truly diverse individuals are proud to have had as their contemporary, the New York Times dares to quote that outrageous, ridiculous and totally unwarranted sentence from a journalist attributing to Derrida a hypothetical deconstructive reading of Mein Kampf that would transform Hitler into an opponent of anti-Semitism. Absurdity here is competing with dishonesty, since your obituarian cowardly hides behind a quotation from The Guardian in order not to be held personnally responsible for his slanderous insinuation. It is a sad reminder of the way, not long ago, The New York Times so complacently lent itself to spreading unchecked rumors about aluminum tubes and arms of mass destruction. Denis Hollier
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