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Deconstruction is inimical to Marxist thought at the point where it questions the validity of any science or method set up in rigid separation from the play of textual meaning

For Derrida, the language of dialectical materialism is shot through with metaphors disguised as concepts

This ludic or playful dimension is very much a part of Derrida's refusal to subjugate 'writing' to 'philosophy'

This is the device of placing words sous rature or 'under erasure', signified by crossing them through in the text and thus warning the reader not to accept them at philosophic face value

'Hermeneutics', as Heidegger conceived it, was the founding philosophy of all interpretation, an attempt to provide the human sciences with a self-understanding adequate to their task