INTELLECTUALS & THE DIVISION OF LABOR--SARTRE ET AL

Ralph Dumain rdumain at igc.apc.org
Thu, 3 Jul 1997 12:19:45 -0700 (PDT)


At 10:59 AM 7/3/97 +0100, Noelle McAfee wrote:
> I confess that I once shared their antipathy, even going
>so far as to write a scathing review of Derrida's performance at an APA
>meeting in the late 80s for the Washington City Paper.

I was there, and I walked out on that pretentious gasbag after a short
while.  He's just another elitist French intellectual shit at home with his
own kind.  Hence your quote does not impress me.  I may well have read your
review.  Feel free to take up Derrida's texts yourself and teach us
something; I have other things to do.