Re: "There is nothing outside the text"

Date sent:      Fri, 25 Aug 1995 03:21:49 -0400 (EDT)
From:           John Ransom <ransom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:             michel foucault <foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:        "There is nothing outside the text"
Send reply to:  foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Someone in our group had asked if Derrida had actually said anything like 
"There is nothing besides the text." The phrase in French is "Il n'y a 
pas de hors-texte" and can be found on p. 227 of _De La grammatologie_. I 
can't seem to find it right now in the English.

--John


In Of Grammatology, it is found on page 158. Is it "besides", or 
"outside" the text? Anyway

Windsor

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