Original sentence: Outside this circle Derrida's work has often been at least as controversial as within; many analytic philosophers and scientists, some going so far as to regard it as pseudophilosophy, even reverting to legitimate ad hominem attacks, premised on his status as a "charlatan"
Edited sentence: Outside this circle Derrida's work has often been at least as controversial as within; many analytic philosophers and scientists, some going so far as to regard it as pseudophilosophy, even reverting to ad hominem attacks, premised on his status as a "charlatan"