From: Integral World [f.visser3@chello.nl] Sent: zaterdag 17 maart 2007 20:50 To: f.visser3@chello.nl Subject: [personal] Misunderstanding Derrida INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 187 Amsterdam, March 17, 2007 WILBER WATCH BLOG: "AQAL Journal" http://wilberwatch.blogspot.com/ MISUNDERSTANDING DERRIDA AND POSTMODERNISME - Gregory Desilet At an Integral Spirituality book signing in Boulder (November, 2006) Ken Wilber and I had a brief exchange about postmodernism and specifically his understanding of Derrida. Based on comments he made during the talk prior to the signing, I was most interested in his response to the question: “Do you believe Derrida errs by offering what amounts to a false critique of absolute transcendence?” Wilber answered “Yes,” without hesitation. Derrida's approach, Wilber believes, contains a fundamental flaw in his specious critique of transcendence, epitomized in his deconstruction of the transcendental signifier/signified. Wilber claimed that Derrida himself came to understand the overstatement of his case and in an interview published in Positions (1981) reversed himself by acknowledging the transcendental signifier/signified's necessary role in language. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/desilet.html Other additions to the Reading Room: 03/11/07: Newcomers to this website have come from the following countries: Gambia, Palau, Cooke Island, French Guyana, Cape Verde, Dominica, Greenland, French Polynesia, Haiti, Tadzjikistan, Anguila, Iraq, Eritrea, Faeroer, Micronesia, Jemen, Palestine (occupied territory), Syria, Laos, Maledives, Monaco, Albania, Armenia, Libanon, Belarus, Kenya, Yugoslavia, Cocos Island, Marocco, Slovenia, Estonia, Rumenia, and Croatia -- which brings the number of countries visitors to this website come from to a total of 193. If you know other people interested in this IW Newsletter, please forward this mail to them. Thanks. To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UPDATE your email address or UNSUBSCRIBE, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/login.php To go to the Newsletter Archive, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/newsletter.html