Sanskrit Boy pointed me to this page that has collected (as of my last count) 3,100 signatures protesting The New York Times’s less than laudatory obit of the late Jaques Derrida. It is a common truism that Derrida had more influence in literary criticism than in mainstream philosophy, but I thought that this was a chance to test these sort of hypotheses. So, I simply cut & pasted the signators, and did a search for how often words came up. Here is what I found….
English – 495
Literature – 333
German – 128
Philosophy – 128
French – 100
History – 100
Anthropology – 38
Languages – 37
Architecture -26
Political Science – 24
Italian – 23
Spanish – 23
Sociology – 19
Economics – 11
Chinese – 6
Theology – 6
Psychology – 5
Mathematics – 4
Russian – 4
Linguistics – 3
Arabic – 2
Semiotics – 2
Business – 1
Cognitive Science – 1
Biology – 0
Chemistry – 0
Geology – 0
Physics – 0
Posted by razib at 08:32 PM