Does Jacques Derrida’s essay “Plato’s Pharmacy” undermine the traditional relation between speech and writing in the West as exemplified by Plato’s Phaedrus, and what is the broader relevance of this question for the practice of literary criticism?
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Taking into account all of the following readings: (Plato, The Bible, Saussure, Derrida), examine the relation between speech and writing in the Western tradition and its implications for literary criticism by answering the following question:
Does Jacques Derrida’s essay “Plato’s Pharmacy” undermine the traditional relation between speech and writing in the West as exemplified by Plato’s Phaedrus, and what is the broader relevance of this question for the practice of literary criticism?
