The History of Structuralism

Derrida: Structuralism is an obsession with finding this quote unquote truth of the thing, which is what Derrida finds extremely interesting. But structuralism always tries to find this kind of pure point, this kind of fixed origin. Or an emphasis on presence, a kind of real thing that can be seen and experienced. And as long as there persists the idea of this center, this supposed center that can move and that gives possibility to structure, as long as that can be believed in, then anything that seeks to try to find this center to kind of find this truth is complicit in the very belief of structure itself.