Fifty Years from now

 

Fifty years from now Heidegger and Derrida will not be viewed as eccentrics,  (an impression they did their best to encourage.  with explanations of how very marginal, how very different and unlike all other philosophers they were).

But in time, when reason has been redefiend,  they will be seen as central to the philosophical tradition, as having overcome certain ways of thinking which were ‘mythic’ or ‘self-deceptive’ or ‘culture-bound’ (or whatever near-synonym of ‘irrational’ is then in fashion).