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Ep: 30 Ch 12 "A Physicist's History of Bad Philosophy" Part 1: The Introduction

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Derrida's Writing in Difference

deconstructionism holds that symbols language for example or whatever else one might choose to use is insufficient to the task of capturing reality at all. So rather than constructing or focusing on the constructing and creating new artworks new texts it's more about dismantling and pulling apart. But let's read a passage from one of Derrida's more famous works, his book Writing in Difference and see if we can make head or tails of it. Quote: That philosophy died yesterday since Heigl or Marx, Nietzsche or Heidegger and philosophy should still wander towards the meaning of its death"

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