January 17, 2005

SONTAG vs. DERRIDA -- THE DEAD INTELLECTUAL SMACKDOWN. Quotable:
You should feel dumb because �

� [Sontag was] "the most intelligent woman in America" (New York Daily News)

� [Derrida was] "the smartest man in the world" (Raphael Simon, The Times)

Contrarian comment about Sept. 11 �

� [Sontag:] "Whatever may be said of the perpetrators of Tuesday's slaughter, they were not cowards."

� [Derrida:] "The brevity of the appellation (Sept. 11, 9/11) � points out the unqualifiable by recognizing that we do not recognize or even cognize that we do not yet know how to qualify, that we do not know what we are talking about."

And then there is the all-important hair factor ... Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack