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MICHAEL PAYNE


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DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405168908.2010.x


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A term used by D errida to indicate both a certain looseness or movement, which can always be found within structures and processes of signification, and the sort of amusement associated with playfulness. In French le jeu conveys this ambiguity much as it does in English. Play in both senses invites those processes of internal or self-reflexive critique that Derrida has practiced as D econstruction and F oucault as G enealogy . It has been observed by Christopher N orris , among others, that when Derrida's writing becomes too playful he has (perhaps unwittingly) invited the mistaken judgment that he has abandoned entirely the seriousness of truth and political engagement. 1967b (1978) : Writing and Difference . ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory: Second Edition



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