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Jacques Derrida - Fear of Writing
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Outtake from the movie "Derrida" (2002)

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This is a ...
By: jtrimble. on 14 Dec 08, 22:53:38
This is a refreshing doubt on his part. Philosophers, since the logical positivist came into popular circles, has been a schism of strict empirical thinkers and poets, however it's best that we do not generalize philosophers like we have done in the past. Once we realize this, each philosophers' truth and illusive nature become more then apparent.

from a ...
By: pleiotropicaction. on 11 Dec 08, 17:58:01
from a philosophical standpoint, what he says is utterly nonsensical. if it is uttered by a poet or a craftman, then, it is ok. it might be encouraging. I believe the best way to understand him is to think of him as a poet not as a philosopher.

Actually, Sartre ...
By: spiritpunker. on 11 Dec 08, 04:57:35
Actually, Sartre almost singlehandedly initiated a wave of awakening of human freedom admist the ideological encroachment from both communist left and Catholic right in postwar era of France

Many have this ...
By: markotom. on 30 Nov 08, 07:32:16
Many have this feeling, it is simply proof that each man by its singularity is able to write something new. Also, the philosopher Maria Zambrano said that the writing is always a new secret, but does not belong to writer. This video is particulary fantastic.

I feel the same way ...
By: SkagMuffin. on 10 Oct 08, 04:21:36
I feel the same way. There are things that bother me about myself before I fall asleep, adn before I wake up, that don't faze me when I am awake, I can ignore them, deal with them, etc. But in these states before and after sleep they are more prevelant.

I got a lot from ...
By: MrDarwinist83. on 07 Sep 08, 20:29:15
I got a lot from this speech. I feel something like that too, and I think it's very valuable to hear intellectual authority-figures like Derrida talk about these things honestly.

Derrida smells of ...
By: TheMajorWorks1324. on 14 Aug 08, 01:19:26
Derrida smells of poo

refering to the ...
By: LeeMonad. on 29 Jul 08, 22:16:45
refering to the commentary of tinalilith well who cares anyhow

A commentary that I ...
By: LeeMonad. on 29 Jul 08, 22:13:35
A commentary that I totally agree with. Especially the movie on Derrida sheds a strange light on him. I find the film mysifying in a negative way, with all that background music etc. Anyhow, Derrida didn't make the movie. Maybe future philosophers should learn to renounce projects turning, posthumously, into a sort of cult. And indeed, as under almost EVERY video, in which someone is displayed sharing a thought, most people act in their primitve impulse to tell their opinion and dislike.

I like that he had ...
By: jackal1221. on 25 Jul 08, 08:30:01
I like that he had doubts in his mind about what he was doing. It shows he was just a man.

Your parody is even ...
By: DavidBolg. on 10 Jul 08, 00:50:13
Your parody is even funnier than the real thing. I didn't think it was possible. You should do this for a living!

Consumate BS artist ...
By: DavidBolg. on 10 Jul 08, 00:46:42
Consumate BS artist with a vocabulary. Strictly for the over sixties.

Who let the dogs ...
By: yogi2436. on 21 Jun 08, 10:15:43
Who let the dogs out? Back to your kennels, Myrmidons! You have named your Achilles and his heel was pierced long ago. But I daresay your jobs are still safe.

to me it sounds ...
By: iggypot. on 19 Jun 08, 02:08:07
to me it sounds like he's simply saying his writing comes from an unconscious place that he does not dare question. perhaps he was more fond of jung than freud...i would never have thought derrida, of all the french critics, to subscribe to the "muse sing in me" tradition which is as old as homer.

Seems that even ...
By: tinalilith. on 13 Jun 08, 23:59:35
Seems that even philosophers have been commercialized here... as if they are movie stars or soccer players, people either like them or don't like them, and they log in here to announce that. I do not think philosophy is about liking or disliking someone; I think it's all about an attempt to understand someone.

Foucault, at least, ...
By: Manwithcam. on 11 Jun 08, 22:04:01
Foucault, at least, deserves to be looked into. In my opinion Sartre's existentialism is a mere extension of already existent societal tendencies of the time. But then again, I'm no philosophy major.

kaspapolgar "shut ...
By: killpolitics. on 29 May 08, 03:33:27
kaspapolgar "shut up... You do not know what you're talking about. And Foucault? And Deleuze? And Guattari?" The people you cite, like yourself, don't know what they're talking about.

shut up... You do ...
By: kaspapolgar. on 28 May 08, 23:22:53
shut up... You do not know what you're talking about And Foucault? And Deleuze? And Guattari?

Multiple ...
By: dinnerbucket9. on 20 May 08, 03:48:16
Multiple biodegradables, like acorns in the mouth of a Gide-like squirrel, otherwise cross produce a certain counter-frisson; on the one hand there is a De-Mand for the offended breast, on the other a longing for a state in which the breast was not, just so, a swelling ambiguity.

The cryto-Oedipal ...
By: dinnerbucket9. on 20 May 08, 03:39:06
The cryto-Oedipal valorization of Pharmakonical sub-indices by no means depriveleges the variant performances of haunted absences. The absence of a signified presence simulataneously de-couples the latent grammatology of the collapsing 'insight', thus creating a safe counter-space for the priapic professor.

The game is bigger. ...
By: zweer13. on 13 May 08, 01:33:42
The game is bigger. It is not only what you say, but what you dare say.

Derrida's an ...
By: comparticipant. on 07 May 08, 20:47:48
Derrida's an obscurantist and a tiresome sophist. I'm with Chomsky on this one, there's far more interesting thinkers out there.

Great intellectual ...
By: killpolitics. on 29 Apr 08, 23:04:11
Great intellectual honesty here. The only French philosopher since Sartre who is genuinely worthy of serious attention.

ernest hemingway?
By: crassconversational. on 20 Apr 08, 19:17:48
ernest hemingway?