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Merold Westphal’s Foreword to Jacques Derrida in the P&R Great Thinkers series
If the categorical imperative for civil conversation is “Listen before you speak,” the law for philosophical evaluation is “Understand before you critique.” More than almost any other major twentieth century thinker, Jacques Derrida has been abused by critics who ignore both formulations of the ethics of intellectual debate. For that reason it seems to me
