In yesterday’s New York Times, Mark C. Taylor mounts a robust defense of Derrida, going as far to claim that:”Along with Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, who died last week in Paris at the age of 74, will be remembered as one of the three most important philosophers of the 20th century. No thinker in the last 100 years had a greater impact than he did on people in more fields and different disciplines.” The article also provides one of the more lucid accounts of the process of deconstruction to have appeared in the wake of the thinker’s death.