This is not an obituary

From The Times (U.K.):

Can there be any certainty in the death of Jacques Derrida? The obituarists' objective attempts to place his life in a finite context are, necessarily, subject to epistemic relativism, the idea that all such scientific theories are mere "narrations" or social constructions. Surely, a postmodernist deconstruction of their import would inevitably question the foundational conceptual categories of prior science — among them, Derrida's own existence — which become problematised and relativised. This conceptual revolution has profound implications for the content of future postmodern and liberatory science of mortality. …

We know only two things. We do not know. And M. Derrida is in no position to enlighten us.

Au revoir Jacques Derrida. I hope that God has welcomed him into heaven, and that he has not mistaken it for limbo.