"One thing first -- you continually act surprised when I come out in favor of order, and coherence, and structure, and meaning, and clarity, etc. Why? If it's because I've studied and written about Derrida and post-structuralism, then this should not surprise you at all. Derrida speaks repeatedly and consistently in favor of all of those things."
Derrida advocates order, coherence, structure, meaning, and clarity that are all his own, and are not externally imposed. It's a power struggle between interpretations. It's a rejection of one absolute Order, Coherence, Structure, Meaning, and Clarity. For some idea of the chaos and incoherence that such a rejection of absolutes creates, check out D'Souza's description of Professor Alice Jardine's 1989 course on French Literary Criticism at Harvard, the college purporting to teach <i>Veritas</i> no less(<i>Illiberal Education</i> 1991).
If you can decipher Derrida, then you should have no trouble with Daniel.
luke
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