Resolving difficulties

November 24, 2008 in Writing, research phase, structure
Tags: Derrida, empirical history, historicity, intellectual history, Thesis structure

Here’s something I’m currently grappling with.  Any thoughts would be appreciated.
On the one hand, I am dealing with the empirical history of the reception of Derrida.  This is interesting insofar as it provides a kind of anthropology of academic disciplines – the way academics respond (or not) to philosophical innovation, and the way this is [...]