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Jacques Derrida
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Derrida examines how meanings depend on differences and relations they cannot fully close. His criticism of oppositions involves more than destroying a text or reversing its hierarchy.
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Guided course · Module 11 · Lesson 68
Who makes the categories by which we live?
Foucault describes productive power, which shapes categories and knowledge; Derrida brings a different question about meaning. What do an institution’s assessments reveal, and what do they help to create?