Derrida is Overrated By Anthony J. Fejfar, B.A., J.D., Esq., Coif Copyright 2010 by Anthony J.

Fejfar Jacques Derrida as two major works, Of Grammatology and The Force of Law. In Of Grammatology, Derrida only comes to the rather ridiculous conclusion that an essay is evil. In doing so, Derrida violates both the exclusionary rules of Ockhams Razor and Logical Positivism. Moreover, Derrida commits the logical fallacy of Shifting Ground. You see, at the same time that Derrida is saying that an essay, as such, is evil, he himself is writing an essay, that is, Of Grammatology itself. Thus, we can see that Derridas position in Of Grammatology is logically incoherent. Derrida does no better in The Force of Law. In The Force of Law, Derrida spends half the book referring to some guy named Benjamin, who Derrida uses to say a number of things which do not make much sense. Derrida would do better without Benjamin, I hope. Yet, Derridas only real position in The Force of Law is to say that reasonable force which aims to produce Justice, should be rejected in favor of violence for the sake of violence. Thus, Derrida reveals himself to be some sort of terrorist and nothing more. The book, The Force of Law has nothing significant at all

to say about law, or the legal system . Derrida is clearly overrated as a scholar and his academic works says nothing of significance.