I'm no Derridean, but I've read enough of and about Jacques Derrida to know he was no nihilist. Neither was Nietzsche. But many nihilists have read both and have appropriated what they think they've found in their texts for their cause. Both D. and N. grapple with the problem of truth and interpretation. Both have good enough b.s. detectors to recognize that what most people claim to be truth is some soulless idol that they worship in place of it. What most people call truth has the stink of something rotten about it, an idea that may have once been true, but has been imprisoned in some fetid jail cell by a propositional tyrant.
Il n'ya pas de hors-texte
Il n'ya pas de hors-texte
Il n'ya pas de hors-texte
I'm no Derridean, but I've read enough of and about Jacques Derrida to know he was no nihilist. Neither was Nietzsche. But many nihilists have read both and have appropriated what they think they've found in their texts for their cause. Both D. and N. grapple with the problem of truth and interpretation. Both have good enough b.s. detectors to recognize that what most people claim to be truth is some soulless idol that they worship in place of it. What most people call truth has the stink of something rotten about it, an idea that may have once been true, but has been imprisoned in some fetid jail cell by a propositional tyrant.