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Full Idea
Deconstructive writing has a peculiar surface, in which technicalities float on the syntactic flood and vanish unexplained downstream.
Gist of Idea
On the surface of deconstructive writing, technicalities float and then drift away
Source
Roger Scruton (Upon Nothing: Swansea lecture [1993], p.2)
Book Ref
Scruton,Roger: 'Upon Nothing' [University of Swansea 1993], p.2
A Reaction
Not even the greatest fans of deconstruction can deny this, and Derrida more or less admits it. At first glance it certainly looks more like the ancient idea of rhetoric than it looks anything like dialectic.
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