After the 1960s large parts of the academic discourse in North American universities, in the fields of philosophy and literature not least, were marked by a preoccupation with the implications of 'poststructuralism' in several versions. After Jacques Derrida's initial conference visit in the U.S. and at least until his death in 2004 his writings have, under the rubric of 'deconstruction, ' played a key role in this development. A great many thinkers and critics have remarked upon this, just as Derrida's texts have led to an enormously rich and complex set of readings, commentaries, and...