num_pages: 128
description: 'There is nothing outside the text.' Possibly no single statement has caused such a storm in critical theory as this famous observation by the French philosopher, Jacques Derrida. Niall Lucy examines three key terms-text, writing and diffrance-as they are used in three famous Derrida's disputes over speech-acts with John R. Searle, over discourse with Michel Foucault and over apartheid. Lucy also takes up the issue of Derrida's relationship to postmodernism and questions the 'political imperative' of the need to justify philosophy and the humanities in general according to a notion of their 'usefulness'.
language: English
title: Debating Derrida
titlecomplete: Debating Derrida (Interpretations series)
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Melbourne University Publishing