The Politics of Jacques Derrida
The recent death of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida came as a bolt from the blue. He declared that there is no Truth everything is just a discourse. Is his death true. The News of his death, if true, means that there are absolute truths in this world and knowledge is about the quest for truth. There is nothing outside the "TEXT" he once declared. By depriving human society of the ability to search for the Trith, and advocating a relativistic perspective, men like Derrida instead of making philosophy a weapon of the weak in their struggle for freedom only made it easier for the powerful to inscribe their own perverted protocols of Truth. Take the IRAQ war for instance. The truth did not matter in the least, only the discourse about WMD which of course, was set by the UN and the other powerful agencies.
The politics of Jacques Derrida and Paul De Mann is extremely repugnant, because in the name of freedom, it denies human beings the ability to apprehend reality and represent it in the only medium known to Man, Language. By destroying the certitude of undeerstanding Derrida and his cohorts have pushed human civilization into the abyss of an innane banal world.