"fiction," defined as its "parasite", "for part of the most originary essence of the latter is to allow fiction, the simulacrum, parasitism, to take place-and in so doing to 'de-essentialize' itself as it were". He would finally argue that the indispensable question would then become: See also Searle–Derrida debate References 1988 non-fiction books Philosophy of language literature Works by Jacques Derrida Philosophical debates