Re: The real problem...

Daniel,

Let's try simplicity. It seems to be the best hope for getting through to
you.

You ask,

"Does not Derrida limit his play in differences to the specific text at hand?"

No.

You say that Derrida "has, with the body of his writings, marginalized texts
and privileged the person."

He has not. Anywhere.

And Derrida's work does not evolve according to the linear narrative you so
glibly sketch out.

It consists of a series of readings and re-readings, many similar, many
different, some referring back to earlier writings, some not. It addresses many
issues in many fields and reads many texts in many different disciplines in many
different ways. The essays are heterogeneous and organized and related and
unrelated and serious and playful and philosophical and literary and political
and aesthetic and developed and sketchy and long and short. And they are
always, each of them, singularly and in groups, available to be read and re-read.

Now, is there anything in all of this that you still don't understand?

--John (trying to be efficient)

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Received on Thu Aug 14 13:37:18 2003