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REMEMBERING JACQUES DERRIDA
ADDITIONAL LETTERS TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Dear Editor:
The New York Times has demeaned itself by publishing such a scurrilous article as the obituary of one of the greatest philosophers of our time. Jacques Derrida was indeed controversial. His concern was not the exposure of error but an investigation into how we produce truth, precisely because his work was committed to justice and democracy. At a time when the United States has earned
international condemnation because of its arrogance, it was unworthy of the reputation of your newspaper to publish such a piece of uninformed xenophobia, especially when its subject is unable to respond.
Sincerely yours,
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities
Director, Center for Comparative Literature and Society
Columbia University
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