Jacques Derrida is dead, but his baneful ideas live on.
Roger Kimball reflects on the passing of one of the 20th centuries' greatest intellectual frauds, French "intellectual" Jacques Derrida. Mr. Derrida, like one of the characters in "Atlas Shrugged" taught that nothing is anything, and that words are without meaning. Francisco would have laughed and said that everything is something and that words always have meaning even if the writer doesn't know what they are. My advice would be to pass on Mr. Jacques Derrida and pick up a copy of "Atlas" or even "Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology" if you want to know why clear thinking about concepts and meaning is vital to effective and purposeful communication.
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