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Wil I did emphasise in the posting that I was writing in haste, and it shewed. My careless alacrity at the keyboard was somewhat assisted at the time by the fact that a schizophrenic alcoholic from the floor above who I do not know from Adam had suddenly decided the way to spend Mondays was to bang on my door demanding to be let in. For what purpose I never discovered, but I doubt it was the urgency of his need to discuss Derrida. No offense intended - I'm far too much a coward. Tremble. Quake. david bircumshaw ----- Original Message ----- From: Wil <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 2:06 AM Subject: Re: a new issue > david posts: > > "When workshops on > Augustinianism or whatever it was start appearing as key references to > understanding" > > This was my contribution,submitted to point out that Derrida was > part of a colloquium "God,the Gift and the Post-Modern"-it was not > a"workshop on Augustinianism." > > -It was attended by a body of thinkers within that tradition,and was > concerned with apophactic theology. > I submitted this reference to point to the range of Derrida's actual > activity,to show that the word > "Derrida" points to a complex body of on-going work,and that to subsume > this work to a global attitude of > prejudice was sufficient grounds to draw commentary.You may feel > "seriously excluded" re specialist vocabularies-this does not entail that > those discussions are worthless,nor need it be the case that any attitude > is required. > Once again- the leap toward proclaiming opinion based upon attitude rather > than inquiry. > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%