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What is Deconstruction? | Jacques Derrida | Keyword

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Arché Writing: A History of Philosophy

Deirida says that writing has been seen as something that is always up for change, always risks disturbing truth. If I write something down and two people with two different dialects read it, they're going to see the same word but speak it differently. So Deirida's speech seems to then resemble the way that we characterize writing. He kind of shuns of course of Western philosophy, because it's predicated upon some basic axioms that he says are totally intractable.

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