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    Help regarding reading Derrida

    I recently started reading Writing and Difference by Derrida. I am finding the text remarkably interesting. At the same time I find it dauntingly difficult as well. Can somebody suggest something to make the reading a bit smoother?
    Being taken literally, is like being sent to hell LITERALLY.

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    Maybe one of these introductory books on Derrida can be of help:
    http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/...96577-0114.xml
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    The Oxford Bibliographies link you provided, Danik, looks very useful. I will explore it at leisure.

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    Thanks! I am reading the Oxford very short introduction.
    Being taken literally, is like being sent to hell LITERALLY.

    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde

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