Jean-Pierre Brisset’s false etymologies: proto-Derrida, demented fun

Xavier (check his crazy blog, Le dicon) in an interesting comment has introduced me to Jean-Pierre Brisset. Brisset is interesting because he anticipates Derrida (diffĂ©rance) by taking a a lexical trick that works only in French and using it as the basis for universal theory, despite most of us not having been blessed with an…