A lovely appreciation:
I received the news in an email almost exactly a year ago. As so often in recent years, Rorty voiced his resignation at the "war president" Bush, whose policies deeply aggrieved him, the patriot who had always sought to "achieve" his country. After three or four paragraphs of sarcastic analysis came the unexpected sentence: " Alas, I have come down with the same disease that killed Derrida." As if to attenuate the reader's shock, he added in jest that his daughter felt this kind of cancer must come from "reading too much Heidegger."
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I'm lost. I really am. you've lost me. Shite! And I fancied myself an intellectual. (And I rarely blog on politics either.) "I Leap for Kierkegaard" is my campaign slogan.
Posted by: Pawlie Kokonuts | January 7, 2008 10:45 PM