這篇論文是作者計劃進行之德希達系列研究的開端。論文以德希達早期的<書寫學 > 為本，探討德希達對「閱讀」這個看似平常的的活動進行的質疑論辯，思考由德希達的質 詢所導引出「閱讀」的廣泛牽涉與種種可能，並回應至今不絕對德希達「解構」閱讀立場的 抨擊。在後殖民研究儼然成為臺灣地區外文學門顯學的今日，談論德希達引起的爭議似乎是 個稍嫌陳舊的話題。這篇論文所以要重拾早在二十年前就在美國燃起，並以燎原之姿橫掃學 界的論戰，是希望喚起學者對這位豐富而細緻的「閱讀者」再繼續深入研究的興趣。德希達 不僅僅是一時的風潮；他對「書寫」、對「閱讀」的思考在在向時行的論述機制挑戰，招引 來者闢築更靈活流轉的人文軌跡。本文指出，對德希達而言，有意義的閱讀不在重複作者的 意圖，而在暴顯文本與其時代、社會的書寫機制的斷裂與牽扯，以凸顯「書寫」與「閱讀」 活動游走的無限可能。而在文學批評的問題上，許多從社會、歷史的角度批判德希達「解構 」閱讀的論述，其實是以粗糙的閱讀，忽視而否定德希達解構閱讀的歷史性與政治潛能。德 希達還沒有走入歷史，因為解構的工作才正開始。
Along with the name of Derrida, one is obliged to hear many resonances accompanying this name, such as: deconstruction, logocentrism, binary opposition, undecidability, aporia, supplement, double reading, and etc.. One also hears heated polemics over the name, or rather, over some once fashionable trend of reading, inaugurated along with the name of Derrida. Various arguments, in their distinctive positions towards deconstruction, expose the intriguing problem in “ reading ” Derrida. This problem is even more intriguing since "reading" itself is one of the main problematics that Derrida has mapped out. I do not dream of solving the problems involved here in an essay, but only attempt to broach some traces of reading Derrida in response to the arguments in discussion. My discussion is guided by two questions: 1. how is the activity of reading problematized in Derrida's work? 2. What possibilities or impossibility of reading is opened up through Derrida's work? These two questions are closcly interlaced but not necessarily leading to answers resemble each other, which will be shown along the discussion.
