ABSTRACT
During the early to mid-1980s Jacques Derrida wrote and spoke extensively and explicitly about questions relating to institutional issues, not least as a response to his strong involvement in GREPH and the setting up of the International College of Philosophy. Moving beyond specific questions of scientific determination and legitimation, Weber in another essay, 'Closure and Exclusion', pursues more widely the often complex, problematic and agonized relationships between institution and interpretation by way of a reading of texts by Nietzsche, Peirce, Saussure and Derrida. To suggest that determination is agonized, frustrated and unfulfilled in this way is not, for Weber, to say that it is simply impossible. Weber shows how Peirce develops a notion of 'habit' as that which 'limits and delimits the process of thought and interpretation'. Weber therefore advocates institutions that might assume, rather than repress, the effects of ambivalence which attend their institution and, indeed, he attempts to envisage possibilities for such institutions.
