charles matthews wrote:
This isn't just a matter of writing style - it' a matter of focus. As a general encyclopedia, we need to be targetted at a general audience - that means that, if nothing else, what the New York Times identifies as major events in someone's life are, for our purposes, major events.
POV! Sorry, for Derrida, some of us really don't accept that he was born again in Yale. That is, he is a European philosopher (the French WP defines him as 'major French philosopher') and I'll take the [[Vincent Descombes]] view over those unreliable rascals at the NYT any day.
That's certainly an opinion which can be represented. But that presented by the NYT is also a major mainstream opinion on the subject. It can of course be said that European Derrida scholars think the NYT sucks, but simply pretending the NYT's view does not exist and is not held by millions of other people is strange.
-Mark