![]() ![]() There was some dispute about whether there could be any genuine philosophical questions that were not questions about language. Philosophy had for decades been relentlessly emphasising the nature of language (as opposed to, for example, the nature of reality, goodness or beauty). By then, everyone but a few reactionaries would have agreed with that assessment. But it aptly captures the flavour of academic philosophy at the time it appeared, which was also the year of Richard Rorty’s anthology The Linguistic Turn, which embodied an argument that the most important philosophy of the 20th century was linguistic philosophy. ![]() Like most everything Derrida said, this notorious declaration becomes more difficult to interpret as one examines its context and the context of its context. ‘There is nothing outside the text,’ wrote Jacques Derrida in 1967. ![]()
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