Nov 16, 2009
The deaths, just a year apart, of Edward W. Said and Jacques Derrida, two of the people most responsible for revolutionizing the humanities in the late twentieth century, will undoubtedly occasion a reevaluation of the changes that they helped bring. Dedicated to teasing out the hidden forces of signification within a text, philosopher Derrida championed deconstruction well suited to an earlier, antiauthoritarian, hyper- (and healthily) relativistic age. Even as he revolutionized the humanities within the academy, Derrida, along with Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan, marginalized it...
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