First Sentence

"It is at least plausibly arguable that Derrida's will have been the most important philosophical contribution (in French, at least) of the last thirty years, in spite of the impassioned argument his work has provoked and still arouses (concretised in 1992 in the argument over Cambridge University's proposal to award him an honorary degree, but also in a series of other 'affairs' and polemics)."