Différance Quotes

“[T]he problematic that today, and in this very spot, links writing with the (putting in) question of truth — and of thought and speech, which are informed by it — must necessarily exhume, without remaining at that, the conceptual monuments, the vestiges of the battlefield (champ de bataille), the signposts marking out the battle lines between sophistics and philosophy, and, more generally, all the buttresses erected by Platonism. In many ways, and from a viewpoint that does not cover the entire field, we are today on the verge of Platonism. Which can also, naturally, be thought of as the morning after Hegelianism. At that specific point, the philosophia, the epistēmē are not “overturned,” "rejected," "reined in," etc., in the name of something like writing; quite the contrary. But they are, according to a relation that philosophy would call simulacrum, according to a more subtle excess of truth, assumed and at the same time displaced into a completely different field, where one can still, but that's all, “mime absolute knowledge,” to use an expression coined by Bataille, whose name will enable us here to dispense with a whole network of references.”
― Jacques Derrida, Différance