'There is nothing outside the text' is a statement by:
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Correct answer: B. Jacques Derrida
Explanation
'Il n'y a pas de hors-texte' is from Derrida's Of Grammatology (1967), in his reading of Rousseau: there is no meaning outside chains of signification (often mistranslated as a denial of the real world).
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