Derrida's views of the western culture that we all live in, can be seen as pervaded by metaphysics, whose search for truth comes from one
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| How can we begin to describe a writer and philosopher like Derrida? How about brilliant and controversial, who's ideas that have altered the landscape of thought in the 20th and 21st centuries. One of his most influential ideas is that if deconstruction. What is deconstruction and how can we interpret it the way he wants us to? At first, even Derrida struggled with an exact definition of his "deconstruction." After more probing in an interview by Rawlings from Stanford he defined deconstruction ".....as something that happens. It's not purely linguistic, involving text or books. You can deconstruct gestures, choreography. That's why I enlarge the concept of text." He went on to say, "Everything is a text," waving his arms at the diners around him in the bland suburban like restaurant. Derrida's views of the western culture that we all live in, can be seen as pervaded by metaphysics, whose search for truth comes from one |
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| singular point of origin that may seem out side the realm of worldly knowledge. Deconstruction does not provide a path to any truth persay but gives liberation in the idea that we must resist the thought that reality's essence is found out side of its own system. In other words Deconstruction resists the tyranny of the easy answer. You must take everything in to account so that you can be accountable for a decision that you stand by. There for "Everything is a Text" No truth can lie outside a system that made for truth making. | |||||||||||||
| If you are still have a little trouble with a definition of deconstruction lets take the one from Barbara Johnson, in her book The Critical Difference. Deconstruction is not synonymous with "destruction", however. It is in fact much closer to the original meaning of the word "Analysis" itself, which etymologically means "to undo"-- a virtual synonym for "to de-construct"....If anything is destroyed in a deconstructive reading, it is not the text, but the claim to unequivocal domination | |
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| of one mode of signifying over another. A deconstructive reading is a reading which analyses the specificity of a text's critical difference from its self. | |||||||||||||