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STRUCTURALISM
the dominant classes. Post-structuralism holds out the promise of an
almost identical ideological accomplishment available to an
intelligentsia even more professionalized, and even less inclined to
believe in the possibilities either of truth or of action. As Pierre Bourdieu
says of Derrida: “Because he never withdraws from the philosophical
game, whose conventions he respects, even in the ritual transgressions
at which only traditionalists could be shocked, he can only
philosophically tell the truth about the philosophical text and its
philosophical reading, which (apart from the silence of orthodoxy) is
the best way of not telling it”. 129
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