My reasons for looking at historicism should emerge clearly over the coming posts. Derrida understands historicism as an unacceptable relativism, and a critique of this is an implicit first step in his thinking. As Peter Dews notes:
Given the frequency of relativistic appropriations of Derrida, particularly in the English speaking world, it is important for an understanding of the overall structure of Derrida’s thought to note that his critique of structuralism, and of associated positions, is heavily reliant upon a reactivation of the anti-relativist impulse of Husserl’s phenomenology.
Peters Dews, Logics of Disintegration, pp.7-8
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