----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
One of Derrida's earliest formulations of deconstruction -- the landmark essay "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" -- was delivered at a now-legendary conference at the Johns Hopkins University in 1966.
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It's arguable that this work was substantially influenced by the work, of all people, W.V.O Quine as Derrida was the first person besides Quine himself to translate Quine's work into French:
http://www.mindspring.com/~dgolumbi/docs/papers/quineandderrida.pdf
"Quine, Derrida and the Question of Philosophy" David Golumbia The Philosophical Forum, Vol. XXX, No. 3, 1999
"Quine, of all our philosophers, is the most French." [John Woods]
Ian