... 's critique of structurality applies not only to the metaphysical interpretation of language, but to all of the 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 centered structure is the contemporaneity he notes between the decentering of Western metaphysics and the dislocation of European culture from ... ...

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... of the human mind to grasp and form abstract concepts. The knowledge of ding-an-sich ("thing in itself"), or nouema, is impossible to attain. In Georg Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel's philosophy of "absolute idealism," reality is broken down by our distinction between it and our knowledge of it, and the understanding of reality is the understanding of our own concepts, and ... ...

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