... falsity, skepticism, rhetorician, the painter, the libertine, the materialist. He pursues Derrida's critique of philosophy as something being organized into binary oppositions, with a hierarchical structure amongst those oppositions and, like Derrida, seeks to defend the devalued member of the binary set. Strongly opposing the primacy of language advocated in many semiotic theories of the time, he valorizes figure, form and image ... which such knowledge and procedures gain or claim legitimacy. Modern science, he argues, firstly, is characterized by its refusal or suppression of forms of...

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