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Question

Which statements accord with Jacques Derrida's account of deconstruction and signification in Limited Inc and Différance?

(A) Interpretation can dispense entirely with context.

(B) The claim that there is no outside-of-the-text means that material and historical reality does not exist.

(C) Deconstruction interrogates inherited conceptual hierarchies by reversing and displacing their oppositions.

(D) Context matters for interpretation, but no context can be treated as absolutely closed.

(E) Différance involves both difference and deferral in signification.

Choose the correct answer:

The correct answer is

(C), (D) and (E) Only

Only (C), (D), and (E) are correct. Derrida describes deconstruction as challenging conceptual hierarchies through reversal and displacement. Interpretation depends on context, while contexts remain open to further determination. Différance connects relational differences with deferral. Thus (A) is false. Derrida also explicitly rejects reading his claim about text as a denial of real or historical referents, making (B) false.

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