/lit/ - Literature

>>6461582
Good for you.

How old were you when you grew out of postmodernism, /lit/?

>Mfw reading On Grammatology

Derrida is stealing practically verbatim from Lacan (and through him Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Kojeve+Hegel), Freud, and Heidegger. All his "innovations" are things that people have thought decades before! He's basically appropriating the ideas of Mallarmé, Lacan, Saussur+Pierce, and Heidegger. How does he get away with this???

Also he pretends not to be a phenomenologist or an ontologist but then he blatantly uses phenomenological reductions and hierarchies of ontological precedence while calling them "psychological." Replace the semiotic terminology with ontological ones and he reads like a pretentious jerk with a poor understanding of Heidegger. What gives? Why is this guy such a hack? Why does no one call him out on it?


Oh yeah also what's with his edgy excuse >muh language is inadequate to express precisely what I mean hence any criticism of my work is merely a poor interpretation