Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences
From Critical Theory since 1965
Edited by Hazard Adams and Leroy Scarle, University Presses of Florida

An introduction on Jaques Derrida and his work is given by the editors. The introduction talks about the revolutionary contribution to philosophical thought and in particular to the concept of assigning meanings to our understanding of the world.  The editors also observe that the difficulty encountered in comprehending Derrida’s writing lies not in the material being ‘decadent’ or ‘irrational and neither is it an ‘incidental irritation’, but this:

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