Part 6. Death of the Author

The writer dies once a text has been created

Michel Foucault (image from openculture.com)

In my view, what Searle disapproves of most is Derrida’s lack of clarity and rigor in his usage of terminology and the oversimplifications he makes in an attempt to propagate his own agenda.

Of course, one could argue in reply that Searle commits a similar folly in that he relies just as heavily on his own…