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(1989) Deconstruction, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

The post-turn turn

Derrida, Gadamer and the remystification of language

Leonard Orr

pp. 197-212

Writing has something of the character of an inscription, a mark offered to the world and promising, by its solidity and apparent autonomy, meaning which is momentarily deferred. Precisely for that reason it calls for interpretation, and our modes of interpretation are essentially ways of constructing communicative circuits into which we can fit.2

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-10335-5_11

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Orr, L. (1989)., The post-turn turn: Derrida, Gadamer and the remystification of language, in A. Rajnath (ed.), Deconstruction, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 197-212.

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