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October 11, 2004
An evening with Jacques Derrida
Meeting Jacques Derrida was an event of my life I will never forget. I think it must have been 1993 and I think he was in London for a seminar. I was lucky enough to be in a group of 6-7 people that had coffee with him at his hotel (my supervisor at the time had written a book about him and Althousser and they were in communication at the time). I think we exchanged something like five sentences - they were about Wittgenstein and some aspects of history of science if I can remember correctly - and I have to say that I was out of my depth in that group of philosophers but the dark skinned old man with the white hair, the kind face and the authority in every sentence he uttered made me just sit back in awe and enjoy the two hours I spent with him.
I am now about ten years older, I have read Derrida (had never read any of his books or articles before I met him), I know my deconstructionism and I am in a completely different profession than I would ever thought I would be back then. I consider myself so lucky to have known him even for these two hours.
Jacques Derrida died on Saturday in Paris.
Posted by Basileios at October 11, 2004 04:42 AM
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