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Of Grammatology
This was my introduction to Derrida, well there is nothing like jumping in at the deep end!
Derrida: “What Comes Before The Question?”
In this intriguing overview of his famous notion of the ‘trace,’ Derrida critiques the long-standing philosophical ‘authority of the question’ by examining the conditions for questioning itself … he argues that presence always presupposes ‘Otherness’ (a ‘primary affirmation’) which embodies a ‘return’…to a ‘different temporality older than the past and beyond the future’ - a [...]
