Fallen Into Knowledge

Jacques Derrida, the emminent French philosopher and critic, died Friday at the age of 74. He was credited with fathering deconstruction, that difficult theory that posits that all texts internally inconsistant due to the vaguaries of language itself, thus robbing texts of meaning and permanence. Though we struggle with his thought, his was surely a signifigant voice in the twentieth century.

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