No final liberation from language

 What language purports to give us is the illusion of ‘mastery’ that Derrida he set out to puncture. Language, for Derrida, is always saying more than we want it to say; it has a tendency to undermine itself, even to turn against itself; there is no final liberation into some utopia of clarity, transparency and understanding.  Language continues /the humanities from claiming the high moral pedagogic   coy game of disclosure and concealment/ the power of the secret./  he regarded every scrap as a ‘trace/
He employed supreme patience with intellectual difficulty and abstention from moral judgment