For reading a book, Please sign in to your account.
loginNo doubt one could begin by saying all kinds of clever, ‘deconstructive’things about why A Derrida Dictionary could never be a book of definitions.No doubt, too, one could say some very unclever, undeconstructive kindsof things to begin with, given that many have accused Derrida’s ‘philosophy’of standing for the impossibility of making positive statements aboutanything at all. Somewhat ironically, though, both of those beginningswould amount to saying the same thing, which could be summarized as avariation on the opening sentence from Derrida’s Dissemination:This (therefore) will not have been a dictionary.