ABSTRACT
This chapter explores some fundamental principles of deconstruction, its understanding of the nature of text, and finally verifies whether they offer a particular way of addressing a work such as the Talmud. In particular, I argue that deconstruction can be called a ‘method,’ only under the presupposition that it does not abide by metaphysical oppositions—the one between letter and spirit, untruth and truth, hidden and apparent, and so on. The chapter examines Derrida’s notion of ‘arche-writing’ with respect to its textual nature and its development from post-Romantic German philosophy.
