>> Structuralists like Derrida talk as if language was totally cut
>> off from the mystical reality (with language conducting it's own affairs,
>> like a sovereign state). But it's not like that at all, the
>> structuralists have got it all wrong.
>
> Eerrmm, Derrida isn't a structuralist. His work is founded on a critique of
> structuralism.
He is a 'structualist', because although he describes himself as a
"postmodernist", that term is almost completely meaningless. For all
practical purposes, "modernist" and "post modernist", like "structuralist"
and "post structualist" are interchangable terms. ie they mean very little.
However, it was rather hard for me to talk about these people with out using
some honourific title, and I will remember, next time, to give them *all*
their honourific titles (they are legion).
Pzeph
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