Phenomena is not seen as a kind of correlation (as in Husserl) of an inside and outside (or even a place where they overlap). Rather “objects” (put in quotes to distinguish it from the Cartesian tradition’s sense) are in the phenomena itself. While in Being and Time on up to his discussion of Ereignis Heidegger focuses in on the clearing where we encounter beings – a kind of “hole” of “nothingness” that characterizes Dasein – Derrida focuses in on the Event within the “objects” themselves. This is a kind of escape from the phenomenal given to Dasein which is simultaneously productive.
One way to characterize this is that Derrida and Heidegger primarily differ in a difference of focus such that Heidegger is concerned with Being as Truth wherein things reveal themselves while Derrida is concerned with the ground of the objects in themselves without leaving the phenomenological tradition. (The way I think say Badiou does and I suspect the Object Oriented Philosophy folks like Harmon does).
Harmon mentions Derrida and postmodernism and suggests that what characterizes postmodernism is its anti-realist stances. Yet I’d note Derrida himself never adopts the label – even if some like Rorty try to marshal him to the cause. I’d also say that while Derrida focuses in on texts and how they undermine themselves pointing at something more, it is by the very notion of an external “reality” that imposes itself against our will to our anti-realism. As Derrida often puts it, things are complicated.
http://www.libertypages.com/cgw/2010/01/18/brief-thoughts-on-derrida/
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