Derrida's Grave There's a wikipedia page for this article, a lecture given at Johns Hopkins University on 21 October 1966. Here is the summary on Wikipedia: "Structure, Sign, and Play" identifies a tendency for philosophers to denounce each other for relying on problematic discourse, and argues that this reliance is to some degree inevitable because we can only write in the language we inherit. Discussing the anthropology of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Derrida argues that we are all bricoleurs , creative thinkers who must use the tools we find around us. Indeed bricolage is a wonderful word. The essay starts out with the quote: We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things. (Montaigne). It's about playing with the history of philosophy but also with Structuralism and Heidegger, who are Derrida's two great sources in this essay. He wants to show the axioms, the center, the structure cannot hold, indeed confounds itself. "one cannot in fa...