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 trans
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.