Derrida and the Meaninglessness of Meaning
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"But even if deconstruction cannot be defined, it can be described. For one thing, deconstruction comes with a lifetime guarantee to render discussion of any subject completely unintelligible. It does this by linguistic subterfuge. One of the central slogans of deconstruction is "il n'y a pas de hors-texte," i.e., "there is nothing outside the text." (It sounds better in French.) In other words, deconstruction is an updated version of nominalism, the view that the meanings of words are completely arbitrary and that, at bottom, reality is unknowable." --"Derrida and the Meaninglessness of Meaning" - WSJ, Roger Kimball, 2004
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"Derrida and the Meaninglessness of Meaning" (2004) is a text by Roger Kimball published in The Wall Street Journal. It is an obituary of Jacques Derrida.
