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What′s Old in Derrida?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Iddo Landau
Iddo Landau
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University of Haifa
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Revolutions often retain more characteristics of the pre-revolutionary state than their makers like to admit. Characterizing the pre-revolutionary state as bad (otherwise there would have been no need for revolution), and wishing to accentuate the greatness of their doings, revolutionaries like to stress the differences between the previous state of affairs and the new one, and prefer to see the similarities as few and insignificant. They are frequently wrong.1

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Philosophy , Volume 69 , Issue 269 , July 1994 , pp. 279 - 290
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1994

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26 I am very grateful to Saul Smilansky, Oded Balaban, Gabriel Motzkin, Avraham Mansbach, Mira Reich, and Mor Arazy for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper.