The document discusses the key concepts and figures of deconstruction. It provides background on how deconstruction emerged as a critique of structuralism. It also includes several quotes from Derrida and Culler that describe the main techniques of deconstruction as reversing hierarchies, displacing oppositions, and showing how a text undermines its own arguments.
3. * “In a traditional philosophical opposition we
have not a peaceful coexistence of facing
terms but a violent hierarchy. One of the terms
dominates the other
(axiologically, logically, etc.), occupies the
commanding position. To deconstruct the
opposition is above all, at a particular
moment, to reverse the hierarchy” (Derrida
qtd. in Jonathan Culler 85).
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4. * “Deconstruction must … thorough a double
gesture a double science, a double writing, put
into practice a reversal of the classical
opposition and a general displacement of the
system. It is on that condition alone that
deconstruction will provide the means of
intervening in the field of oppositions it
criticizes and which is also a field of non-
discursive force” (Derrida qtd. in Culler 85-86).
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5. * “The practitioner of deconstruction works
within the terms of the system but in order to
breach in” (Culler 86) .
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6. * “To „deconstruct‟ philosophy is thus to work
through the structured genealogy of its
concepts in the most scrupulous and immanent
fashion, but at the same time to determine,
from a certain external perspective that it
cannot name or describe, what this history may
have concealed or excluded, constituting itself
as history through this repression in which it
has a stake” (Derrida qtd. in Culler 86).
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7. * “…to deconstruct a discourse is to show how it
undermines the philosophy it asserts, or the
hierarchical oppositions on which it relies, by
identifying in the text the rhetorical operations
that produce the supposed ground of
argument, the key concept or premise. These
descriptions of deconstruction differ in their
emphases ” (Culler 86) .
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8. * Causality: a basic principle of our universe. One
event causes another, that causes produce effects.
* Chronological reversal of “Pin-Pain”
* “The fragment of the outside would of which we
become conscious comes after the effect that has
been produced on us and is a posteriori as its
„cause.‟ In the phenomenalism of the „inner world‟
we invert the chronology of cause and effect. The
basic fact of „inter experience‟ is what the cause
gets imagined after the effect has
occurred” ”(Derrida qtd. in Culler 86).
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1. Discover the binary operations;
2. Comment on the values, concepts and ideas behind these operations;
3. Reverse these present binary operations;
4. Dismantle previously held worldviews;
5. Accept the possibility of various levels of a text based on the new
binary inversion.
6. Allow the meaning of the text to be undecidable.
12. Derrida Lacan Foucault Barthes
*Four Pillars of Post-
structuralism in France
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Hillis Miller
Harold Bloom
Paul de Man
Geoffrey Hartman
14. * Culler, Jonathan. On Deconstruction: Theory
and Criticism after Structuralism. 1982.
Introd. Sheng Ning. China: Foreign Language
Teaching and Research Press,2004. Print.
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