You know where I said Arundhati Roy is my Hero? Derrida too.
After just gushing about Roy, now I get to gush about dear Derrida, my Algerian hero.
So, still casually reading my research, searching for a coherent definition of justice to quote. Derrida, with his fondness for source texts, quotes a big long bit out of a book by Nancy. Only to interrupt it, in the middle, with this
(He's commenting on when Nancy casually uses the phrase "it must be said") "I interrupt again for a moment the quotation: I must say that, from one reading to the next, this turn of phrase "if it must be said" seems to me more and more bizzare, subjected, in truth, to a strange contortion in philosophy, inflicted by a circumvolution for which I know no other example and to which I would want to devote an entire book. In any case, he is going to tell us what must be said, and with authority, all while asking if what must be said must be said, and while politely, almost apologetically, setting as a condition that he be authorized to say something that is not self-evident but that will end up being affirmed, conditionally, because in the end it must be that what must be said must indeed be said, especially since it has already be said, and he is going to repeat it, even though he is in fact vaguely aware that perhaps it should not be said, except in order to clarify a few things that are not any more self-evident, namely, bout the knd of fraternity that is to be discussed. Let me return to the quotation:"
I love reading Derrida when he makes my mind hurt about utterly, utterly random and inane things. Reading essays by him is always the adventure, and, it must be said, often quite painful. That particular quote is nearly as good as when Judith Butler starts off a book of hers with a long rant about how she hates being called "Judy".
So, still casually reading my research, searching for a coherent definition of justice to quote. Derrida, with his fondness for source texts, quotes a big long bit out of a book by Nancy. Only to interrupt it, in the middle, with this
(He's commenting on when Nancy casually uses the phrase "it must be said") "I interrupt again for a moment the quotation: I must say that, from one reading to the next, this turn of phrase "if it must be said" seems to me more and more bizzare, subjected, in truth, to a strange contortion in philosophy, inflicted by a circumvolution for which I know no other example and to which I would want to devote an entire book. In any case, he is going to tell us what must be said, and with authority, all while asking if what must be said must be said, and while politely, almost apologetically, setting as a condition that he be authorized to say something that is not self-evident but that will end up being affirmed, conditionally, because in the end it must be that what must be said must indeed be said, especially since it has already be said, and he is going to repeat it, even though he is in fact vaguely aware that perhaps it should not be said, except in order to clarify a few things that are not any more self-evident, namely, bout the knd of fraternity that is to be discussed. Let me return to the quotation:"
I love reading Derrida when he makes my mind hurt about utterly, utterly random and inane things. Reading essays by him is always the adventure, and, it must be said, often quite painful. That particular quote is nearly as good as when Judith Butler starts off a book of hers with a long rant about how she hates being called "Judy".