September 14, 2001
Derrida's Latest Book Memorializes Dead Thinkers
BRING OUT YOUR DEAD: While crossing a street in Paris in 1980, Roland Barthes was run over by a truck; a few weeks later, he succumbed to complications from the accident. The next year, Jacques Derrida published an essay in honor of his colleague. It was a gesture in keeping with the grand tradition of tributes by French intellectuals following the deaths of friends and sparring partners. The philosopher's homage was especially fitting, since his eulogy for the formalist critic was a
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