Deconstructing Hegel's sign-making imagination : Derrida and the textual imagination

Abstract

Following the identification of ways in which deconstruction and imagination suggest the possibility of shedding light upon one another, I seek to overcome certain objections to the notion of a textual or deconstructive imagination emanating from Husserlian or Platonist models, by addressing questions of language's origination and creativity within the context of Hegel's inchoate and problematic notion of a signmaking imagination.