Philosophy & Deconstruction: Love of wisdom or a wisdom of love? Tonight The American Scholar remembers Jacques Derrida. Check out Charles Truehart’s Letter from Paris: The Death of Derrida for illuminations such as this. Shortly before he died, Derrida said that philosophy had been for him “the search for an ethos and a way of life.” Deconstruction, Derrida said, was “above all an act of respect and of love.”
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Philosophy & Deconstruction: Love of wisdom or a wisdom of love?

Tonight The American Scholar remembers Jacques Derrida.

Check out Charles Truehart’s Letter from Paris: The Death of Derrida for illuminations such as this.

Shortly before he died, Derrida said that philosophy had been for him “the search for an ethos and a way of life.” Deconstruction, Derrida said, was “above all an act of respect and of love.”