"Michel Foucault remarked of Jacques Derrida:


He's the kind of philosopher who gives bull*s*h*t* a bad name."

[From Illiberal Education]

Hey, folks, want to know why Foucault says this?

Try skimming through Derrida's monumental work in the modern French original, De La Grammatique, Les Editions de minuit 7, rue Bernard - Palissy 75006 Paris, at least to where he makes his famous declaration within the section on pages 266 - 267, the one under the sub - heading L'exorbitant. Question de méthode:

Il n'y a pas de hors - texte...

In yours truly's case, it was while reluctantly noodling my way along in a Fall 2004 UTEP English literary criticism class that it gradually dawned on me just why there was like a 50 to 70 page gap in pagination between the French original and the so - called English translation: sex, spelled S - E - X.

Period!

For reasons of political correctness, I guess the translators felt compelled to make their main man "look good" to English speakers everywhere, instead of simply letting it all hang out.

So they took scissors and cut out dozens of passages dedicated to sexual pontificating.