This thinker argued that philosophy's attempts to create natural meaning by erasing the metaphorical origins of the words it uses is doomed because of the fundamental "irreducibility of metaphor".
This thinker argued that philosophy's attempts to create natural meaning by erasing the metaphorical origins of the words it uses is doomed because of the fundamental "irreducibility of metaphor". He argued that communication is structured by the necessity of being repeatable even in the absence of a receiver, which he calls "iterability". A work by him analyzes Western philosophy's tendency to characterize the pure (*) presence of voice as something that is violated by the mediation of writing. That work infamously declares: "There is nothing outside the text". This author of Margins of Philosophy introduced the concepts of "logocentrism" and différance. For 10 points, name this French Poststructuralist author of Of Grammatology, the father of Deconstruction.
This thinker argued that philosophy's attempts to create natural meaning by erasing the metaphorical origins of the words it uses is doomed because of the fundamental "irreducibility of metaphor".
Jacques Derrida