This idea contends that the traditional, or metaphysical, way of reading makes a number of false assumptions about the nature of texts. This philosophy subverts these assumptions and challenges the idea that a text has an unchanging, unified meaning. By demonstrating the multiple layers of meaning at work in language, it shows how language is constantly shifting. First pro
This idea contends that the traditional, or metaphysical, way of reading makes a number of false assumptions about the nature of texts. This philosophy subverts these assumptions and challenges the idea that a text has an unchanging, unified meaning. By demonstrating the multiple layers of meaning at work in language, it shows how language is constantly shifting. First proposed in three 1967 texts, Writing and Difference, Speech and Phenomena, and Of Grammatology, FTP, identify this method of literary and philosophical analysis created by Jacques Derrida.
This idea contends that the traditional, or metaphysical, way of reading makes a number of false assumptions about the nature of texts.
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