... a rhetorical question. It has a question mark at the end, but you are not meant to answer it because the person who is asking it already knows the answer.

What will we care for the why and the wherefore?

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself easily to parody: 'What is it, to speak? How can I even speak of this? Who is this "I" who speaks of speaking?

Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

Why do they call it rush hour if no one moves?