Derrida moved upstream beyond history where Adorno and Merleau-Ponty moved into it.

Evidence

But, as Dews observes, ‘Derrida’s response to this collapse of Husserl’s philosophical project is not, like that of Adorno or Merleau-Ponty, to move “downstream” towards an account of subjectivity as emerging from and entwined with the natural and social world, but rather to move “upstream”, in a quest for the ground of transcendental consciousness. The subject is subordinated to the endless play of difference, but his move takes us not into, but beyond, history. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 308

Categorization

• XREF: The upstream/downstream opposition is a potent contrast for a Marxist critique — connects to Adorno’s and Merleau-Ponty’s social-worldly accounts of subjectivity.
• SEED: A possible article angle: using the upstream/downstream distinction to diagnose why deconstruction yields no historical or social traction.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 308