Sentence:  But I would now like to argue that there was for Derrida a privileged site in Ancient Philosophy for this question, one to which Derrida would repeatedly return in his writing and thinking – Socrates' denigration or denunciation of writing, his attempt in the Phaedrus to exclude writing from thinking and philosophy proper. As I suggested at the outset, this claim regarding Derrida's relation to the Greeks is one that Derrida himself would have been <WSD>reticent</WSD> to accept. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Hesitant or not wanting to take some action; reluctant (usually followed by a verb in the infinitive).