What is political deconstruction?

The term “deconstruction, ” according to one of its champions, Jacques Derrida, is more than merely a method for interpreting texts; it is a mode of political action as well, though it is not “political action” as that term is ordinarily understood.

What is an example of deconstruction?

Deconstruction is defined as a way of analyzing literature that assumes that text cannot have a fixed meaning. An example of deconstruction is reading a novel twice, 20 years apart, and seeing how it has a different meaning each time. A philosophical theory of textual criticism; a form of critical analysis.

What did Jacques Derrida mean by the term deconstruction?

As we said at the beginning, “deconstruction” is the most famous of Derrida’s terms. He seems to have appropriated the term from Heidegger’s use of “destruction” in Being and Time. But we can get a general sense of what Derrida means with deconstruction by recalling Descartes’s First Meditation.

How does the philosophy of Derrida relate to writing?

To speak a little bit of Derrida-ese, it might be said that like the logocentrics of old we anal-retentive, logo-phallo-centric philosophers privilege logos – that is, meaning, reason, spirit — and we take speech to be prior, in the order of signification, to writing. And by privileging speech over writing, we privilege presence over absence.

What did Jacques Derrida study at the Ecole Normale?

Most importantly, at the École Normale, Derrida studied Hegel with Jean Hyppolite. Hyppolite (along with Maurice de Gandillac) was to direct Derrida’s doctoral thesis, “The Ideality of the Literary Object”; Derrida never completed this thesis.

When did Jacques Derrida publish his first book?

Jacques Derrida. First published Wed Nov 22, 2006; substantive revision Tue Jul 30, 2019. Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was the founder of “deconstruction,” a way of criticizing not only both literary and philosophical texts but also political institutions.