Derrida- Idea of Deconstruction

Name: Baraiya Bhavna P.Roll No: 3Sem: 2Year: 2012-13

“Post” structural because…

The structure of language reveals its own dismantling,

Not a “universal” structure to reality

Deconstruction

-A strategy- -A method- A way of reading texts that

reveals the slippery and elusive nature of “truth” “meaning” and “author”.

Logocentrism

An opposition of metaphysical concepts

e.g. speech/writing presence/absence its never the face-to-face of two

terms, but hierarchy and an order of subordination.

Deconstructing the text…

‘Reading the text against itself’ ‘knowing the text as it can not know

itself’ (Terry Eagleton)

Conclusion

Deconstruction is not synonymous with ‘destruction’.

It is in fact much closer to the original meaning of the word ‘analysis’, which etymologically means ‘to undo’…

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