Procrastination, Ordinary and Philosophical

Philosophy and Rhetoric 53 (3):267-271 (2020)
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ABSTRACT Confinement is an experiment in procrastination. It used to be a vice, close to acedia, but we now take it as irrational. But it's not clearly so. Procrastination is indeed vicious when a philosopher delays permanently explaining what his theses are. Derrida is a case in point.

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Pascal Engel
École des hautes études en sciences sociale

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The Truth in Painting by Jacques Derrida. [REVIEW]David Carrier - 1988 - Journal of Philosophy 85 (4):219-223.

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