Derrida est mort...

Jacques Derrida, the most famous French philosopher of his generation (b. Algeria, 1930) and author of scores of remarkable works, has died of pancreatic cancer in Paris. I will continue reading and writing on his works till my own death, I am sure. One of his greatest works will appear in English translation in January 2005. It is called Rogues: Two Essays on Reason. This work gives philosophical depth to questions of geopolitics and globalization; by comparison, it makes Chomsky's thoroughly documented and impassioned anti-imperialist writings look important, but conceptually shallow.