Jacques Derrida’s Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences is a very difficult piece of literature. Once one pushes through the shell of the text, it then becomes possible to breakdown and understand the message that he is trying to convey. It is very important when dealing with this text to be patient and thorough. Derrida says, For the paradox is that the metaphysical reduction of the sign needed the …showed first 75 words of 859 total…

…showed last 75 words of 859 total…the resources necessary for the deconstruction of that heritage itself” (86). Derrida brings us to the inescapable idea of binary opposites. No matter how hard one tries to maintain a fair-minded, unprejudiced critical assessment in the discourse of the human sciences, it is futile. Derrida argues that the moment one denounces a certain way of thinking to attain an unbiased view; at that moment one adopts a biased view. The section of Derrida’s ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**