Jacques Derrida
Deconstruction
Sayings by Jacques Derrida
The university is always already a battlefield.
The trace is the erasure of selfhood.
The closure of metaphysics is not an end but a limit.
The political is the experience of the undecidable.
There is no pure event, only repetition.
The signature is always a promise and a threat.
The archive is always already a place of forgetting.
The secret is not what is hidden, but what cannot be hidden.
The monster is always already within.
The question of the other is the question of the ethical.
The proper name is always already a common name.
There is no innocent reading.
The subject is not a substance but an effect of différance.
The meaning of a text is never exhausted.
The supplement is always already at the origin.
The end of history is not the end of philosophy.
The democracy to come is a promise, not a present reality.
The secret is the condition of possibility for communication.
There is no innocent violence.
The university is a site of both conservation and deconstruction.