Logocentrism

[Paul Mackin]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 Muchasmasgracias at cs.com wrote:

> In a message dated 6/19/00 2:54:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time, jbor at bigpond.com 
> writes:
> 
> << No rules. Both/and, not either/or. Derrida & co. still read Plato, St
>  Augustine et. al. but with a critical eye to the intrinsic preconceptions
>  and hidden agendas which are made transparent by the processes of textual
>  deconstruction. >>
> 
> And I would say that Derrida & co. still violate their own non-binarism thing 
> too.  Hasn't Derrida waffled over it when faced with a distinction between 
> just and unjust?
> 


The thing you learn on the first day of Deconstruction School is that the
most important thing about hierarchical binary oppositions is that they
are unavoidable.

			P