The problem I have with Derrida, Focault, et. al. is that they're effectively impossible to critique. The density of their writing, combined with their tendenc

The problem I have with Derrida, Focault, et. al. is that they're effectively impossible to critique. The density of their writing, combined with their tendency to redefine terms on the fly means that critiques often end up being critiques of interpretation, rather than critiques of the work itself. Of course, the writers would argue that that's exactly the point. The main idea of postmodernism is that the work is inseparable from the interpretation.