"As Derrida said at Villanova,
"We wait for something we would not like to wait for.
That is another name for death."
— Brian D. Ingraffia, "Is the Postmodern Post-Secular?,"
p. 50 in Postmodern Philosophy and Christian Thought ,
ed. by Merold Westphal, Indiana University Press, 1999, pp. 44-68
See also Derrida at Villanova in this journal.
The link to Ingraffia's remarks was suggested by
this evening's New York Times obituaries—