“There is nothing outside the text” is a statement by:

The correct option is Jacques Derrida.

“There is nothing outside the text” (originally in French, “Il n'y a pas de hors-texte”) is one of the most famous and influential statements associated with the French philosopher and literary theorist Jacques Derrida, appearing in his 1967 work, Of Grammatology.

In the context of post-structuralism and deconstruction, this statement does not literally mean that physical reality does not exist. Rather, it suggests that human experience, knowledge, and reality are always mediated by language and interpretive frameworks. We cannot access any objective reality or meaning that exists independently of the signs and texts we use to describe it.