Transcript: Commentary: Remembering Jacques Derrida

ROBERT SIEGEL
All Things Considered (NPR)
10-12-2004
Commentary: Remembering Jacques Derrida

Host: ROBERT SIEGEL
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM

ROBERT SIEGEL, host:

This past week witnessed the death of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. He died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 74. Commentator Charlotte Stoudt has this remembrance.

CHARLOTTE STOUDT:

Jacques Derrida was postmodern philosophy's equivalent of The Riddler, an academic whose prose made the thickest computer manuals read like the back of cereal boxes, whose pun-prone critiques gave whole libraries of graduate students the fiercest headaches of their lives. Lots of people have never heard of Jacques Derrida. Many of those who have ...

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