Reply to comment

Either I understand Derrida on an elementary level though not the specifics of his argument and what exactly he means by his terms, or I am completely at sea. In particular, I am confused by citation vs. recit, and history vs. nature, and mode vs. genre.

What is Derrida saying that Foucault does not? (I know, we haven't read Foucault in this class, but he was my first theorist.) Are they developing similar ideas about categories but applying them to different areas of categorization? Wittgenstein on mathematics, too, for that matter: he argued that mathematicians don't discover mathematical truth, but invent it, creat it, just as genre truth (Derrida) and sexuality truth (Foucault) are created or constructed, not found. Is that the crux of post-modernism?