Before you go ahead and order the Bennington, let me ask you a question: have you read much in the broader philosophical tradition? In other words, are you rel

Before you go ahead and order the Bennington, let me ask you a question: have you read much in the broader philosophical tradition? In other words, are you relatively up to speed on, say, Plato and Descartes and Kant, for example? If not, the Bennington isn't going to be of much use. Derrida situates himself within a particular tradition; it's (necessarily) hard to read him in isolation.