On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:12:26AM -0500, Phil Sandifer wrote:
"a primary source may be used only to make descriptive claims, the accuracy of which is easily verifiable by any reasonable, educated person without specialist knowledge."
The way I have always read that par of NOR, books ''about Derrida'' are secondary sources, which do not have this "without specialist knowledge" proviso. It's only if you want to write your article directly from Derrida's work that the primary sources issue comes into play.
- Carl