1/   Texte posant parfaitement le paradoxe  d'un philousophe ignoré en France mais porté aux nues le jour de sa mort.    Tout le contraire dans le reste du monde ! 
      The prime minister, two cabinet ministers, the mayor of Paris, and the head of the French Communist Party all recorded their reactions on the back of a special 10-page supplement published by the daily Le Monde to mark the philosopher's passing.
        Ironically, Derrida's theories are scarcely taught in France, where philosophy departments have long distrusted his global vision of politics and art and the world.
         "And in America, where Derrida's thought swept through humanities departments coast to coast, his death was noted in The New York Times only as the departure of an "abstruse theorist." There is a chasm between the United States and France on this," says Francois Cusset, a philosopher who has written about the influence of French philosophy on America. "In the US, where Derrida's role was absolutely central, his death didn't get much attention. In France, where Derrida was marginalized from Day 1, it is a national trauma."

       2/ John Searle, the Mills Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of Derrida's most eloquent critics, once said that what he found most deplorable about Derrida and deconstruction was "the low level of philosophical argumentation, the deliberate obscurantism of the prose, the wildly exaggerated claims, and the constant striving to give the appearance of profundity by making claims that seem paradoxical, but under analysis often turn out to be silly or trivial."

4/ J'aime le Foucault, épinglé "histoirien" !
        "Like the historian Michel Foucault, he was highly revered — and reviled.  To those of an empirical, commonsensical mindset, Derrida was remarkable principally for his verbose and ambiguous prose, and his willingness to ask questions while appearing reluctant to answer them. Like Foucault, Giles Deleuze and Jean Baudrillard, Derrida was often derided as a poseur, a "celebrity philosopher" who lacked the systematic rigour of the true philosopher, and who wrote in a deliberately obscure manner to conceal the emptiness of its content.
       Originally named Jackie by his mother, Georgette Derrida (née Safar), Jacques Derrida was, like Albert Camus, born and raised in Algeria. Being Jewish, however, rendered him an outsider on two counts. In 1940 Derrida experienced antiSemitic discrimination at primary school as a result of the regulations of the Pétain regime: because of his religion, he was not permitted to raise the French flag, the honour usually given to the top pupil in the class.
       In fact, in Argelia,  the "anti-this mythe laws" were applied in october 1942, while the USBoats were loading  in Boston for the November North African Conquest.

Which Statistician could believe that collaborators two, three, four of the traitor Pétain were visiting Algiers BY CHANCE, all three together, and taken prisoners, at that time ?       Now we know that Pétain thought of escaping France in 1943. Had he done it with his chief ministers, Mc'Harlot was DONE!   Anyway the argument of "Derry Dada little jew-martyr" is a perfect example of this preacher-langage submerging us everywhere!

        5/ "Derrida was influenced in his writing by the French-Jewish author Jacob Jabs and the French-Jewish philosopher Emanuel  Levinas. Drawing on psychoanalysis, Marxist theory, and Heidegger's philosophy, Derrida's work contributed to a comprehensive rethinking of the basic concepts and categories of Western philosophy. His focus was on the value of written signs, which he claimed traditional western philosophy undervalued in favor of oral ones."

        6/ "The problem lies insidiously deeper, in that words like 'culpability', 'corruption', 'crime' and 'punishment', all the terms that constitute the lexicon of malfeasance, have been perverted so as to render debate or an inquiry into their genealogy totally meaningless."

        7/ "...by the 1980s, the use of the term deconstructionism - like existentialism before it - was as popular among newspaper critics and dinner party guests as it was among radical undergraduates....

He even inspired a rock song by the pop group Scritti Politti. ("I'm in love with Jacques Derrida/ Read a page and know what I needta/ Take apart/ My baby's heart . . ."). Derrida subsequently met the lead singer of the group whom he described as "a very intelligent young man, really knows his Wittgenstein".           But he always remained reluctant to define his own philosophy. "The least bad definition," he once admitted, was that deconstruction was "a certain experience of the impossible".

       8/ "Mr. Derrida is best known as the founder of the deconstructionist school of philosophy, which sees the meaning of a text as not definite and unchanging but dependent on how a reader interprets it."

9/ Roger Scruton, philosopher:       "He's difficult to summarise because it's nonsense. He argues that the meaning of a sign is never revealed in the sign but deferred indefinitely, and that a sign only means something by virtue of its difference from something else. For Derrida, there is no such thing as meaning - it always eludes us and therefore anything goes." Derrida has been mischaracterised - he's not nihilistic or relativistic. He doesn't say, "Everything is equal and you can do what you want." Because there is no God or higher power, you have to take responsibility yourself.

10/ Richard Boston, writer
        "Deconstructionism is what at school, we called parsing. At Cambridge 10 years later we called it practical criticism. Then, another 10 years later, I became aware that this familiar pastime had a new name, deconstructionism. It's just taking things apart. I do, though, have to confess that I have not made a close study of Jackie Derrida."

        11/ Jacques Derrida, the father of the pseudo-philosophy of "Deconstructionism", has been deconstructed into the next world. He had been conducting a terminal "narrative" with cancer.  
        Deconstructionism is the nonsensical infantile "philosophy" that argues that words have no meaning, there are no facts nor truth, and the only thing we can REALLY be absolutely certain about are that the US and capitalism and Israel are evil and must be eliminated. Deconstructionism has become something of a pseudo-intellectual orthodoxy among certain of our academic colleagues, especially those in the academic professions that never quite found out where's the beef. Here in Israel, the Hebrew University last year granted Derrida, the godfather of the Deconstructionism, an honorary PhD for his enormous contributions to, well, saying nothing of value about nothingness. (While technically born Jewish, Derrida had a long record of endorsing the Left's set of liberation solutions to the "problem" of Israel's existence.)

        12/ Deconstructionism is a shallow form of Non-Thinking that has gained popularity among some of the more simpleminded disciplines of the academic world. Essentially the same as post-modernism (how is that for a true nonsense word, something no woodchuck could chuck?), Deconstructionism argues that there do not exist any such things as facts, truth, logic, rationality, nor science. Nothing in the world exists beyond subjective narratives, each as legitimate as the next. Language is the ultimate form of tyranny and source of control over us oppressed folks by those evil elites. There are no false narratives, just different subjectivities.  

13/ Deconstructionism was defined nicely by Robert Locke:          "It is also known as poststructuralism, but don't ask what structuralism was, as it was no better. It is based on the proposition that the apparently real world is in fact a vast social construct and that the way to knowledge lies in taking apart in one's mind this thing society has built. Taken to its logical conclusion, it supposes that there is at the end of the day no actual reality, just a series of appearances stitched together by social constructs into what we all agree to call reality.

 But not agree voluntarily, for society has (this is the leftist bit) an oppressive structure, so we are pressured to agree to that version of reality which pleases the people in charge."
        To Derrida's credit, he never bought in to the Stalinism so popular among most other French intellectuals. And Derrida is only one of the better-known clowns in the three-ring Deconstructionist Big Top. Michel Foucault is perhaps even better known than Derrida. He was a great celebrator of psychedelic drug use, sado-masochistic anonymous gay sex, cruelty and violence as expressions of liberation and deepness. There have been allegations that after discovering that he had picked up AIDS, he intentionally continued cruising the San Francisco gay scene to infect as many gay men as possible with the virus. In the autumn of 1983, after Foucault's health had collapsed and less than a year before his death, he continued to frequent gay bathhouses and bars. He is best remembered for his motto: Sex is worth dying for. According to Mark Lilla (The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics), Foucault laughed at the idea of 'safe sex' and apparently said, 'To die for the love of boys: what could be more beautiful?"  
        Derrida was only one of the herd of fatuous trendy leftist know-nothing Eurotwit pseudo-thinkers turned into cult heroes by campus "thinkers." A few years back another Israeli university gave a similar honorary doctorate to German philosopher Jurgen Habermas. Habermas theory is a watered down nursery school chant, where there are no actual conflicts of interests on earth, where all conflicts in the world are the result of poor communications, and where all conflict may be resolved through communicative actions (psychobabble for talking it out). I would like to see Herr Habermas get himself out of a mugging situation in gang turf in some of my old Philadelphian stomping grounds using communicative action. But Habermas had at least been a vocal critic of German skinheads and neo-Nazis. Derrida had no such track record. He never even renounced de Man.

14/ Enfin  partisans français,
un "paperman":   http://raisonsdagir.org/wacquantMonde.htm
            "Mr. Colombani a récemment déclaré sur France Culture : "On a tendance à sur-interpréter [l']importance [de Bourdieu] au-delà des frontières puisque, au-delà des frontières, quand on voit la vie des campus américains on s'aperçoit que l'homme le plus étudié aujourd'hui, qui a le plus d'influence, venant de nous, c'est Derrida, beaucoup plus que Pierre Bourdieu… D'ailleurs il n'est pas autant enseigné aux Etats-Unis qu'on l'imagine ici." Ces deux assertions sont totalement fausses (e.g., aucun des vingt meilleurs départements de sociologie des USA n'enseignent Derrida, tous enseignent Bourdieu ; ce dernier est également l'auteur le plus étudié dans les deux principales revues de théorie sociale du pays, Sociological Theory et Theory and Society durant la décennie passée).
            Il serait fort regrettable que Le Monde soit la source d'une vision aussi grossièrement erronée de la vie intellectuelle française et états-unienne.