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the man who taught the world that every text is quietly arguing with itself.
means jacques derrida was a french philosopher who founded deconstruction, a method of reading that exposes the hidden contradictions and assumptions baked into language and meaning.
from born 1930 in french algeria, derrida arrived in paris an outsider to its intellectual establishment and stayed one by design, publishing three era-defining books in 1967 that unraveled structuralism from the inside.
key termcoined differance, a pun on differ and defer
famous linethere is nothing outside the text
academic dramacambridge faculty nearly blocked his honorary degree in 1992
outputwrote over 40 books, notoriously dense