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Again, there is a gap opened up between the claim to truth and the way in which the text deconstructs that claim as a merely rhetorical or post hoc rationalization

During the sixties and early seventies his thinking was much influenced by a group of critics--the so-called 'Geneva School'--who saw interpretation as an effort to grasp the states of awareness embodied in literary texts

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'