deconstuction
Deconstruction
Deconstruction is the name of a method of critique developed by Jacques Derrida
(1930-2006), a French philosopher whose writing is central to the emergence of the post- Structuralim. In 1967, he published three books that effectively put an end to structuralism and launched a new era in French intellectual life. The books were Writing and Difference,a collection of essays on philosophy and literature Of Grammatology,which includes writings on Claude Levi Strauss, Saussure and Rousseau and Speech and Phenomenon, a deconstruction of the Logical Investigation of Edmund Husserl. Deconstuction , as applied in the criticism of literature, designates a theory and practice of reading which claims to “subvert” or “undermine” the assumption that the system of language provides grounds that are adequate to establish the boundaries , the coherence or unity and the determinate meanings of a text. Typically, a deconstuctive reading sets out to show that conflicting forces within the text itself inevitably dissipate the seeming definiteness of its structure and meanings into an indefinite array of multiple , incompatible and undeniable possibilities.( Abrahms). In other words, it is a method of reading texts inorder to subvert , to subvert the coherence and unity of the text. This is done by foregrounding the conflictin forces within the text that serve to dissipate the seeming definiteness of its structure. Deconstruction can said to be the “strategic, rigorous, decentring of the structure described by someone, not by abandoning the structure, but by multiplying the forces at work in the field of which that structure is a part.’ “Multiplying forces” means to reveal the undecidables, indeterminancies, and indefiniteness residing in the difference within identities, as opposed to adhering to dualistic thinking.The first step in this process is the REVERSAL OF BINARY OPPOSITIONS. A deconstuctive analysis of literature
Deconstruction is the name of a method of critique developed by Jacques Derrida
(1930-2006), a French philosopher whose writing is central to the emergence of the post- Structuralim. In 1967, he published three books that effectively put an end to structuralism and launched a new era in French intellectual life. The books were Writing and Difference,a collection of essays on philosophy and literature Of Grammatology,which includes writings on Claude Levi Strauss, Saussure and Rousseau and Speech and Phenomenon, a deconstruction of the Logical Investigation of Edmund Husserl. Deconstuction , as applied in the criticism of literature, designates a theory and practice of reading which claims to “subvert” or “undermine” the assumption that the system of language provides grounds that are adequate to establish the boundaries , the coherence or unity and the determinate meanings of a text. Typically, a deconstuctive reading sets out to show that conflicting forces within the text itself inevitably dissipate the seeming definiteness of its structure and meanings into an indefinite array of multiple , incompatible and undeniable possibilities.( Abrahms). In other words, it is a method of reading texts inorder to subvert , to subvert the coherence and unity of the text. This is done by foregrounding the conflictin forces within the text that serve to dissipate the seeming definiteness of its structure. Deconstruction can said to be the “strategic, rigorous, decentring of the structure described by someone, not by abandoning the structure, but by multiplying the forces at work in the field of which that structure is a part.’ “Multiplying forces” means to reveal the undecidables, indeterminancies, and indefiniteness residing in the difference within identities, as opposed to adhering to dualistic thinking.The first step in this process is the REVERSAL OF BINARY OPPOSITIONS. A deconstuctive analysis of literature