...of that structure. Indeed, this figure is so much a part of our languages and habits of thought that "the notion of a structure lacking any center represents the unthinkable itself." Yet there is a contradiction in this way of conceiving the center, for in order to provide a stable...

...of the system, the center of a structure permits the play of its elements inside the total form. And even today the notion of a structure lacking any center...the play which it opens up and makes possible. As From Jacques Derrida, Writing and Difference, trans, by Alan Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,...

...of the system, the center of a structure permits the play of its elements inside the total form. And even today the notion of a structure lacking any center represents the unthinkable itself. (278—79) Derrida is pointing up an inevitable epistemological contradiction (a contradiction formalized...

...of the system, the center of a structure permits the play of its elements inside the total form. And even today the notion of a structure lacking any center represents the unthinkable itself.29 Like de Man, who attributes structurally analogous functions to "summation" and "dialectical...

...the system, the center of a structure permits the freeplay of its elements inside the total form. And even today the notion of a structure lacking any center...itself. Nevertheless, the center also closes off the freeplay it opens up and makes possible. Qua center, it is the point at which the substitution of contents,...

...center of a structure permits the play of its elements inside the total form [...] a structure without any center represents the unthinkable itself. Nevertheless,...play which it opens up and makes possible. As center is the point at which the substitutions of contents, elements, or terms is no longer possible. At the...

...the system, the center of the structure permits the play of its elements inside the total form. And even today the notion of a structure lacking any center represents the unthinkable.106 The moment of contradiction Derrida exposes is the reason for the self-violating violence...

...of the system, the center of a structure permits the play of its elements inside the total form. And even today the notion of a structure lacking any center represents the unthinkable itself. See Derrida, Jacques. "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" in Writing...

...of a structure lacking any centre represents the unthinkable itself . . . Nevertheless. the centre also closes off the play which it opens up and makes possible . . . The concept of centred structure is in fact the concept of a play based on a fundamental ground....

...of the system, the center of a structure permits the play of its elements inside the total form. And even today the notion of a structure lacking any center represents the unthinkable itself. . . . The concept of a centered structure is in fact the concept of a play based on a fundamental ground,...