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: