Derrida
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Wed 24 November 2004 // 20:00
DERRIDA
(Wed 24th / 8pm / £4/3)
A complex personal and theoretical portrait of the internationally renowned French philosopher, Jacques Derrida. Best known for generating a movement known as "deconstruction", Derrida's radical rethinking of the founding precepts of Western metaphysics has profoundly influenced the fields of literature, philosophy, ethics, architecture and law, inalterably transforming the intellectual landscape of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman follow their subject through lectures, seminars, and at home with his family. They capture a side of Derrida that few would have ever expected to see.. Immensely sceptical of the biography format, Derrida proceeds to run circles around them, claiming that the only thing there is to say about any philosopher is "he was born - he thought - he died". Programmed respectfully as we hear the man has actually just died.
(Wed 24th / 8pm / £4/3)
A complex personal and theoretical portrait of the internationally renowned French philosopher, Jacques Derrida. Best known for generating a movement known as "deconstruction", Derrida's radical rethinking of the founding precepts of Western metaphysics has profoundly influenced the fields of literature, philosophy, ethics, architecture and law, inalterably transforming the intellectual landscape of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman follow their subject through lectures, seminars, and at home with his family. They capture a side of Derrida that few would have ever expected to see.. Immensely sceptical of the biography format, Derrida proceeds to run circles around them, claiming that the only thing there is to say about any philosopher is "he was born - he thought - he died". Programmed respectfully as we hear the man has actually just died.