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Post Structuralism Part 2 Discussion

Post Structuralism Part 2 Discussion

Q 1) In what way does Derrida use the letter "a" in Differance to show how two potentially different meanings appear in an expression that belong together but can only be expressed separately in their linguistic context? 2) If a "spatializing time" or a "temporalizing space" is the condition in which we exist, why can it not be apprehended in our experience or articulated in language?

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Jacques Derrida in his article has mentioned about the use of the article “a” differently in separate places depending on the context. He has, in fact, thrown light on the word “diffetance by using an “a” it. He believed that the sense of two expressions can be different depending largely on the linguistic context. To him “difference means act of deferring and not discrepancies between two things. I found this chapter a bit complicated and so is the ideas about space and books. Another complicated idea presented by him is “spatializing time” or “temporalizing space.” As he has mentioned categorizing literature is a bit different from other things and so is hardly possible. Interpretations are of different wave lengths which is even harder to categorize.