I recall Hagi Kenaan from New Haven around 1989, but with a false memory of him sitting in on Maurice Natanson’s lectures on existentialism that were offered at Yale for decades, a sprawling lecture hall packed with students, including auditors like me checking out the scene at the time. But Hagi and I actually were in Natanson’s seminar on Husserl’s Cartesian Mediations together in 1990, and Hagi was a course assistant for Natanson after that. Two years later, Hagi led my independent study on Kierkegaard’s Concept of Anxiety. A good friend Stephen M. Rich and I took his seminar on the Derrida-Searle fiasco. I remember circling old campus on foot, over and over, reading Derrida’s shrill and reactive response to Searle, Limited Inc.  Those were strange times, as I did not appreciate the excesses of deconstruction at Yale, and I equally did not like the analytic smugness and pointlessness that often faced off with it. People talked a lot about the “Analytic – Continental split” in the late 1980s and early 1990s. That entire construction …