Insistence on multiplicity of meanings more attractive to literary critics than philosophers.
Category: Latest News
Welcome to our archive of news stories relevant to the project of fighting fashionable nonsense. The stories are drawn from the electronic pages of the world’s media. On this page, you’ll find links to those stories that have been featured on Butterflies and Wheels during the current year. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find links to separate archives of stories from previous years.
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A note about links
Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
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Why Does No One Read Analytic Philosophy?
Why yards and yards of Foucault next to zero Fodor on the shelves?
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Pogo and the Art of Popular Culture
Verbal facility, emotional range, moral complexity, political satire. Go Pogo.
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Our Debt to Derrida
He allowed Braddon to sit down next to the Brontes.
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A Few Key Thinkers on Derrida
Also one or two key non-thinkers.
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Grayling Replies to Guardian on ‘Canon’
Does a good job of it, too.
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Derrida in the Newspapers
Wanted to play football but realised he wasn’t good enough.
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The War on Science, Bush Division, Again
If agencies say what you don’t want to hear, then re-organize them.
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Scott McLemee on Derrida
‘An approach that could push one’s mental stamina to the limits.’
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History, Fiction, Truth, Evidence, Details
Details matter; it is unwise to make them up if you want to be believed.
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The Hunting of the Top Quark
A non-physicist philosopher of science got it right. Makes a change.
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Derrida
The Age (Melbourne).
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Derrida
The Telegraph.
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Derrida
The New York Times.
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Derrida
The Washington Post.
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Derrida
The Guardian obituary.
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Churches Launch Climate Campaign
Not yet clear what role God will be playing.
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Derrida’s Dead
He died on Friday. He was suffering from pancreatic cancer.
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Jacques Derrida est Mort
Le Monde says Derrida was French philosopher best known abroad, especially in US.
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Le Monde Interview with Derrida
Dangerously ill, but writing and talking nonetheless.