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He read every text to find what it was trying to suppress, and found that every text was trying to suppress something.
He argued that philosophy should give up hunting for certain foundations beneath our beliefs, and instead treat truth as whatever survives an open, ongoing conversation among free people.
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Jacques Derrida deconstruction read as a kind of writing Richard Rorty — Rorty admired Derrida while refusing the apparatus, reading him as a private ironist rather than a theorist of language, a domestication Derrida's followers resented and Rorty defended.
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“There is nothing outside the text.”
“Deconstruction never proceeds without love.”
“Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with saying.”
“The idea that one has had, or can have, a great vision has been replaced by the idea that the way to have the good, communal life is to abjure the very notion of having such a vision.”
Key Moments
1967
Three founding texts published in one year
1992
Honorary degree controversy at Cambridge
1979
Publishes Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
1998
Publishes Achieving Our Country
Works
Of Grammatology
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature