BMOON,
You are well-named, you who bemoon (arghh!) the obvious without appreciating the ironies. The great tete de m***e of the academy is no more. He is but compost, fertilizer for daisies, in point of fact an ex-philosophe. Take heart and be of good cheer in the full knowledge that his loss is most certainly our gain. Derridian thought and Islam have much in common. The concept of “zero” comes to mind. Muslim mathematicians invented the idea, but only Derrida could wrap the concept in notions so erudite as to render the expression totally meaningless! I can hardly wrap my mind around it. Islam invented nothing, but Derrida expressed it in ways unfathomed by average minds. This was true genius. Garcon! A bottle of Pernot for the table!
