I have always had trouble r... by Jacques Derrida, a French Philosopher

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“I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned.”

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Name: Jacques Derrida

Nationality: French

Date of Birth: Jul 15, 1930

Date of Death: Oct 8, 2004

Profession: Philosopher

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The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

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We are all mediators, translators.

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Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

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These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.

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If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

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