Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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the signs of that struggle are there

[...] Deconstruction in this, its most rigorous form acts as a constant reminder of the ways in which language deflects or complicates the philosopher's project. Above all, deconstruction works to undo the idea--according to Derrida, the ruling illusion of Western metaphysics--that reason can someh…

—p.19 Deconstruction: Theory and Practice Jacques Derrida: language against itself (18) by Christopher Norris
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contrapuntal

the harmonic or contrapuntal, which typified the supposed weakness and decadence of French tradition

Rousseau's music taste lol

—p.34 Jacques Derrida: language against itself (18) by Christopher Norris
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indelibly

Freud's indelible figures of writing are his chief contribution to a knowledge of the unconscious

—p.123 The American connection (90) by Christopher Norris
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misprision

the acts of creative 'misprision', or swerves from origin, which Bloom sees at work in all great poetry

—p.118 The American connection (90) by Christopher Norris
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