... participates in the metaphysics of presence by posting the presence of the speaker's intentions in language, an assumption that Derrida questions in his deconstruction of the speaking/writing opposition. To classical theorists of language, a key distinguishing feature of writing is that it functions even in the absence of the author or authorial intention because it exists as a recording, while speech functions ... West's theoretical systems: of morality, of political ethics, of religion, of science, of philosophy. What is significant, then, about Derrida's broad decentering of the c...

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