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also why there is nothing outside 'iext' even in the widest sense of the term. Derrida is compelled to make a move by which the word 'text' gets extended meaning in the sense that reality itself becomes "intertextual” as a system of differences.
The Lila of the Absolute in Radhakrishnan is different from the play of difference in Derrida. The play of ontological differences express Being according to Radhakrishnan. For Derrida the play of differance is itsel concealed and repressed in the illusion of control and mastery of meaning within the metaphysics of presence.
Terry Eagleton shows that we find in Derrida a kind of libertarian pessimism; libertarian, because of the dream of existence free from the shackles of truth, meaning and sociality and pessimistic because the blocks of creativity are inherent in the procss of liberation itself. In postmodernism, there is "a cynical erasure of truth, meaning and subjectivity"36. Radhakrishnan would not have endorsed such a position. A reader of the texts of Radhakrishnan and Derrida therefore would experience conflict between restorative and disruptive effects of such texts.
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