Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.
Jacques DerridaAbout author
- Author's profession: Philosopher
- Nationality: french
- Born: July 15, 1930
- Died: October 8, 2004
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