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Topic: DeconstructionPaper no.7:Literary Theory & Criticism
Prepared by: Arati R.MahetaRoll No.:3P.G.Enrollment No.:13101019Sem:2Email id: [email protected]
Submitted to:Smt.S.B.Gardi Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar
Jacques Derrida
• Related works by Derrida
1 Antecedent example: the Phenomenology vs. Structuralism debate
2 Différance3 Of Grammatology
4 Speech and Phenomena
5 Writing and Difference
6 Derrida's later work
What is Deconstruction?
• Deconstruction (French: déconstruction) is a form of philosophical and literary analysis derived principally from Jacques Derrida's 1967 work Of Grammatology
• In the 1980s it designated more loosely a range of theoretical enterprises in diverse areas of the humanities and social sciences, including—in addition to philosophy and literature—law anthropology, historiography, linguistics, sociolinguistics, psychoanalysis, political theory, feminism, gay and lesbian studies
Various term by various critics
• His defin
ition of d
econstru
ction is th
at, [it's p
ossible, w
ithin
text, to f
rame a q
uestion o
r undo a
ssertion
s made in
the text
,
by means
of eleme
nts which
are in th
e text, wh
ich frequ
ently
would be
precisel
y structu
res that p
lay off th
e rhetor
ical
against g
rammati
cal eleme
nts.
Paul de
man
It is a th
eory &
practic
e of rea
ding wh
ich que
stions
and cla
ims to
‘’subve
rt or ‘’u
ndermi
ne’’ the
assump
tion tha
t the sy
stem of
languag
e provid
es
ground
that ar
e adequ
ate to
establis
h the
boundr
ies,the
cohere
nce or
unity an
d the
determ
inate m
eaning
of a lite
rary tex
t
Darrida
‘Deconst
ruction'
as the sys
tematic
undoing o
f
understan
ding.
Richard Ellmann
Decon
structio
n as a w
ay of
uncove
ring the
questio
ns behin
d
the ans
wers of
a text o
r traditi
on
Pau
l Ricœu
r
1
2
• “Huma
nity suff
ers ter
ribly fr
om the
demo
ns it ha
s creat
ed
over le
ngths o
f time.
we lear
n from
nothin
g that w
e do. w
e creat
e religio
ns,
heritag
e, race
, traditi
ons, th
en the
y all in
turn b
ecome
our
stumb
ling blo
cks fro
m beco
ming o
ne. we
suffer f
rom the
creatio
ns of ou
r own in
ability
to inte
rpret hi
story.
the on
ly
thing w
e have
succee
ded on
is sepe
ration.
we are
not th
at
differe
nt from
one an
other a
s we th
ink we
are. bu
t we ar
e
too cor
rupted
to bre
ak our d
econst
ruction
.”
Jeffry Fischer
• “It goes without saying that these effects do not suffice to annul the necessity for a “change of terrain.” It also goes without saying that the choice between these two forms of deconstruction cannot be simple and unique. A new writing must weave and interlace these two motifs of deconstruction. Which amounts to saying that one must speak several languages and produce several texts at once. I would like to point out especially that the style of the first deconstruction is mostly that of the Heideggerian questions, and the other is mostly the one which dominates France today. I am purposely speaking in terms of a dominant style: because there are also breaks and changes of terrain in texts of the Heideggerian type; because the “change of terrain” is far from upsetting the entire French landscape to which I am referring; because what we need, perhaps, as Nietzsche said, is a change of “style”; and if there is style, Nietzsche reminded us, it must be plural.” Derrida
In Margins of Philosophy
Main characteristics
Main Characteristics
• Deconstruction tries to reinstate language within the connections of the various terms that have conventionally dominated Western thought: the connections between thought and reality, self and world, subject and object.
• For deconstructionists, there is no “truth” or “reality” which somehow stands outside or behind language: truth is a relation of linguistic terms, and reality is a construct, ultimately religious, social, political, and economic, but always of language, of various linguistic registers.
Main figures
• Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) • Jacques Derrida is responsible for the pervasive phenomenon in modern literary and cultural theory known as “deconstruction.”
• He was the most influential philosopher in70s&80 of last century.
• His philosophy is the further extension of Structuralism and is better called as
Post -structuralism
• Derrida has conducted deconstructive readings of numerous major thinkers.
• Derrida’s seminal work, “Structure, Sign, and Play” exhibits some of the persistent concerns of deconstruction and reveals both what he owes to structuralism and his divergence from it.
Conclusion• Finally, Derrida argues that it is not enough to deconstruction to expose the
way oppositions work and how meaning and values are produced and stop there in a nihilistic or cynic position regarding all meaning, "thereby preventing any means of intervening in the field effectively".
• To be effective, deconstruction needs to create new terms, not to synthesize the concepts in opposition, but to mark their difference and eternal interplay.
• This explains why Derrida always proposes new terms in his deconstruction, not as a free play but as a pure necessity of analysis, to better mark the intervals.
• Derrida called undecidables, that is, unities of simulacrum, "false" verbal properties (nominal or semantic) that can no longer be included within philosophical (binary) opposition: but which, however, inhabit philosophical oppositions, resisting and organizing it, without ever constituting a third term, without ever leaving room for a solution in the form of speculative dialectics (e.g.différance, archi-writing, pharmakon, supplement, hymen, gram, spacing).
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