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The Library of Living Philosophers

Jacques Derrida

by Matt Williams

In the Spring of 2001, I had the good fortune to attend a lecture given by philosopher Jacques Derrida at the University of Florida. Wait! What am I talking about! Let’s take a closer look at this sentence. In the Spring of 2001 – what does that really mean? Was the lecture actually held in a spring? Hopefully it was a hot spring. Of course we all know Spring refers to a time period. Don’t we? I did capitilize it.

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