/lit/ - Literature

"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." - Jacques Derrida

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"One must always do justice to justice." - Jacques Derrida

Says the philosopher who practically robbed a state university, demanding an outrageously high salary for his celebrity status, in exchange for giving one lecture a week in his native french (he refused to lecture in english) which was absolutely of no use to anyone in America and not even have to do any marking for the course.

The guy was a sleaze ball, just like his buddy Paul de Man (who didn't even have a B.A yet somehow managed to weasel his way into academia). Interestingly, Paul de Man would spent hours staring at himself in the mirror.

tl;dr they both were narcissist fucks who dazzled academia with their bullshit