RE: The real problem...

At any rate, John O. appears to have been making reference to Derrida
the person as a stable source of meaning for his texts because comments
from you and Luke appear to have been directed toward Derrida the person
and what _he_ believes, not what his texts "mean" by themselves. If you
want to shift the grounds of discussion to the texts, you could start
quoting them. I think so long as you assume that your reading of
Derrida's text = Derrida's intent, you're going to be wasting your time.
Jim

If our comments were directed at Derrida the person then there is no
rational reason to direct anyone to texts since the author as a source of
meaning is unattainable. I contend that there is a direct discernable link
by degree but until the source of meaning is agreed upon Jim, a debate about
meaning be it exclusively in the text or traceably from the author is
meaningless. You and John operate in this world we share as if there is a
direct discernable link between the two but you rationally argue against
contrary to both of your berating. What reference Derrida or any links
among his texts if he does not matter? If there is no link then signatures
mean squiggly lines and Derrida is a label for a group of literature and no
more and if authorial intent has no impact concerning meaning for the reader
then comparing texts and extracting meaning because arbitrary because all
you are doing is combining to texts with their own fields of meanings in to
a new text with a different field of meaning but this combining for the
reader does not increase in any way they likelihood of better understanding
since it is just a new hybrid text with it own latent unanchored meanings.
I am not referring to specific texts here Jim, so quoting specific texts is
like playing football without any rules. Meaning must be hashed out before
we can talk about what any quote from a text means.
Daniel

Ok, if others have seen them, and if you see them, quote the relevant
texts and support your point. Until then, it's just hot air. John
provided quotations to support his claims.

Jim

See my comment above.
Daniel
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Received on Thu Aug 14 15:39:08 2003