t to show why there should be no philosophy of language. Rorty says that for Derrida, language is the last refuge of the Kantian tradition based on the idea that there is something eternally present in the gaze of the human being which philosophy allows us to see more clearly. The idea of a philosophy of language and the idea of Kantian philosophy are both illusions:
The twentieth-century attempt to purify Kant's general theory about the relation between representations and their objects by turning it into a philosophy of language is, for Derrida, to be countered by making philosophy even more impure--more unprofessional, funnier, more allusive, sexier, and above all, more
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