Derrida and Wittgenstein: Language, Meaning and Context
It is quite interesting to relate the thoughts of Jacques Derrida and Ludwig Wittgenstein. One of the reasons for this is that both thinkers spend a reasonable amount of time on language, and the other is the points where they approach each other. Both thinkers are far from essentialist logic that associates language with a permanent source. Likewise, according to both thinkers, meaning does not find its source in a fixed presence. Both language and meaning are determined in a contextual network that it is possible to describe with the concept of a game. This network is a dynamic network where changes are always possible. Additionally, both thinkers are distant from interpreting this dynamism as a semantic nihilism. The aforementioned dynamism should not be interpreted as a deficiency of language, but rather as the possibility of its normal functioning.
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