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While no idea is impervious to criticism, I think Americans take those authors much more "serious" (as in their ideas as "hard truths") than them themselves take it (in France).

So her criticism might be right in substance (in the American context) but targeting the wrong thing.

Derrida is pretty much Gödel's incompleteness theorem for philosophers instead of just "reducing everything to language and then making language destroy itself"



Gödel's incompleteness theorem is Gödel's incompleteness theorem for philosophers. Derrida is fashionable nonsense.


If you summarize Derrida to one or two sentences, you could say he critiqued western civilization to have a tendency for black and white thinking. Quite ironic.




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