Pickstock again: For Derrida, there is ultimately no real difference, since all difference is univocally violent. There are particular differences of this and that, but they are all different in the same way – violently different – so there is a “transcendent” sameness. Derrida’s absolute difference collapses is really penultimate difference enveloped by an absolute indifference. Clever point, that.
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