... 's intentions, then, is purely contingent, for the language itself is characterized by the absence of the referent. Ironically, the fixity of the signifier/signified relationship, supposed to ground language in the immobility of the speaker's intentions and thereby rein in free play, actually reopens the semantic field to the play of substitutions by making every utterance iterable at ... systems: of morality, of political ethics, of religion, of science, of philosophy. What is significant, then, about Derrida's broad decentering of the centered structure is the contemporaneity he note...

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