ABSTRACT
The Work In Its Context Jacques Derrida’s 1966 “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” works across several fields. Though often read as literary theory, its concerns have to do with far broader methodological concerns in the “human sciences.” That label, more commonly used in European than in Anglo-American institutions, covers the full set of the humanities and social sciences, but often with particular prominence given to linguistics,* anthropology, literature, and philosophy.
