French-inspired, postphenomenological linguistic and cultural theorist who, in all his guises, assaulted the “subject” and “univocal meaning,” and “no longer promise[d] a final aim, goal, or purpose” for interpretation. Now the death of God, long familiar to American readers, would be made unfamiliar with its new application as the death of “traditional logocentric hierarchy,” while the will to power would be transcribed as the will to interpret texts.
