OFGRAMMATOLOGY 1211
Radicalizing the concepts of interpretation, perspective, evaluation, difference,
and all the “empiricist” or nonphilosophical motifs that have constantly tormented
philosophy throughout the history of the West, and besides, have had nothing but the
inevitable weakness of being produced in the field of philosophy, Nietzsche, far from
remaining simply (with Hegel and as Heidegger wished) withinmetaphysics, contributed
a great deal to the liberation of the signifier from its dependence or derivation with
respect to the logos and the related concept of truth or the primary signified in whatever
sense that is understood. Reading, and therefore writing, the text were for Nietzsche
Open Warfare,1991, by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe. Derrida holds that the limits
or frame of a given piece defines an inside and an outside but also “permits,
and even encourages, a complicated movement or passage across it both
from inside-out and outside-in” (from David Carroll, Paraesthetics:
Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida(New York: Methuen, 1987), p. 136). Gilbert-
Rolfe’s painting exemplifies this deferral of meaning as its pattern suggests
a continuation beyond itself. (95 x 95 oil on linen, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe)