there is nothing outside the text

is simply the idea that there is nothing outside of context and nothing outside of an incessant movement of context's recontextualization.

Derrida's translatable-untranslatable paradox is contingent on language. One of Derrida's most well known claims that 'there is nothing outside of text' (il n'y a pas de hors-texte)11, which translates to 'there is no such thing as out-of-text,' thus 'there is nothing outside context.' For Derrida, 'context' is the entire 'real-history-of-the-world,' whereby objectivity, subjectivity, ethics, and truth have taken on special meaning and imposed themselves. Derrida discloses that one of the designations of deconstruction is the aim to take this complex 'context' into account, in an 'incessant movement of recontextualization.' (http://www.revista-art.com/print'aid=43)

is a way of saying that the notion of a 'pure speech' autonomous from the activity of writing is as senseless as suggesting that one could have 'meaning' outside of culture.

But the truth is, there is no such thing as 'pure speech' outside of writing, just as there is no 'meaning' outside of culture. ' (NET)

is merely a way of saying that nothing can be conceived without relation to something else.

Terry Eagleton recently 'corrected' what he took to be a widespread misreading of Derrida's 'there is nothing outside the text.' What this really means, Eagleton explained, is not that everything is language or discourse but that nothing can be conceived without relation to something else. But it is just this 'without relation' that is the most crucial dimension of Derrida's thought. A space or a sequence of time relates one point to another, carries over or traces in the absolutely singular an anticipation of that which will remain the same. What needs to be thought are not sets of relations but the tearing of the singular from itself, the way in which any point to be established as a point must already be transgressed, traced, marked or divided from itself by the anticipation of some continuing identity. 'Before' there can be a hierarchical relation or difference between terms there must be the establishment of some point of stability, some marking or tracing of that from which relations might then be thought. Relations in their external or structural form-- relations among terms, such as a spatial field-- depend upon a non-relation. The point, the singular, the unique or the purely present which we imagine as the original substance before differences and relations, must already have departed from itself without relation, retrieval, or re-presentation (Derrida, EH 151). To establish a present, as present, as bearing an identity or mark that can then be thought or related to some other point or present, the present must already 'announce' the infinite, go beyond itself, not be itself.' (brookcole 2004 5).

is the idea that nothing lies outside its context (i.e. The history of objectivity, subjectivity, ethics, and truth).

Derrida's translatable-untranslatable paradox is contingent on language. One of Derrida's most well known claims that 'there is nothing outside of text' (il n'y a pas de hors-texte)11, which translates to 'there is no such thing as out-of-text,' thus 'there is nothing outside context.'12 For Derrida, 'context' is the entire 'real-history-of-the-world,' whereby objectivity, subjectivity, ethics, and truth have taken on special meaning and imposed themselves.13 Derrida discloses that one of the designations of deconstruction is the aim to take this complex 'context' into account, in an 'incessant movement of recontextualization.'14'

there is nothing outside the text, n.All

there is nothing outside the text