text: An early paper by this man argued that the structure of metaphysics used to have a "center," such as God or Man, but doesn't anymore.
full_question: An early paper by this man argued that the structure of metaphysics used to have a "center," such as God or Man, but doesn't anymore. This man criticized the desire for a "transcendental signified" to which all signs eventually point. He lost popularity after publicly excusing the Nazi ties of his Belgian colleague Paul de Man. Gayatri Spivak translated a large book by this man, which shows Thoth on the cover and opens by declaring "There is nothing outside the (*) text." This critic of "logocentrism" devised a way of reading texts which reveals apparently-binary opposites to actually be hierarchies and then destabilizes their meaning. For 10 points, name this Algerian-born author of Of Grammatology, a French post-structuralist who pioneered deconstruction.
first_sentence: An early paper by this man argued that the structure of metaphysics used to have a "center," such as God or Man, but doesn't anymore.
raw_answer: Jacques Derrida