Jacques Derrida: Section 3

Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher credited with launching the Deconstructionist movement, argues his theories in this program. Derrida begins with a frank discussion on the ethical problems of Deconstruction, especially in relation to human rights. He argues that Deconstruction is not a disillusion of the subject, it is first and foremost a historical or genealogical analysis of that subject and an attempt to focus on a universal translation of it. Derrida points out that Deconstruction is mainly an affirmation—and it goes further and changes the nature of the subject—and is neither "reconstruction" nor "destruction."

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[Elekias]

Old Bilbo Baggins talking about his book on Deconstruction xD (dont get this wrong, I like Derrida)

[Krelianx]

Then, appealing to an alleged authority to disavow a thinker is fallacious. Just like many find these thinkers' views untenable, the latter also raise objections against views alike of the thinkers you mentioned. Appealing to the logical positivists as if they had intellectual authority to discredit other traditions in principle is dogmatics. Please refrain from making an opinion if you don't know what you're talking about. There's enough blather going around about these men. Read, then post.

[featheon]

Stupid people need to think postmodernism is confusing.

[verwoestijning]

The Postmodernism Generator is a computer program that automatically generates postmodern essays. Gramatically correct but meaningless.

It was mentioned by Richard Dawkins in his article Postmodernism Disrobed for the scientific journal Nature and in his book A Devil's Chaplain.

Now watch a college language student reviewing a computer generated essay. He has no clue of its true origin.

/watch?v=jxQ7rONF5iE

[animesuxxxx]

Fresh from listening to several Bryan Magee sessions, this interview is striking for the hostility from the presenter and his questions. However, Derrida explicates his work brilliantly.

[superymp]

If one understand the act of deconstruction as implied by Derrrida, it is the positive act that creates the necessary praxis that is the ingredient to the development of an idea while considering its other as the necessary component involved in any development. By including the other in our attempts at socio-philosphical creating of ideas through nuanced analysis reflecting the dissordinance within ordinate clarity of interactive realties, we reflect the realty that makes up life-world

[superymp]

If one understand the act of deconstruction as implied by Derrrida, it is the positive act that creates the necessary praxis that is the ingredient to the development of an idea while considering its other as the necessary component involved in any development. By including the other in our attempts at socio-philosphical creating of ideas through nuanced analysis reflecting the dissordinance within ordinate clarity of interactive realties, we reflect the realty that makes up our life-world

[macsm]

This sounds like jibber-jabber.

[stupid2utube]

"Deconstruction" has a traditional meaning that is inherently negative, and here Derrida is trying to counteract that inherent negativity. When deconstruction occurs the purpose is not to render a framework meaningless or incorrect, it is to understand the logical/theoretical construction behind the framework, and find a correlation between other frameworks.

[Aedox1]

to deconstruct I must begin to be estructuralist, the first step is to find opositions, second see the process that makes a term of the oposition privileged, that is become a center, naturalized a s the most important, invented as auto suficient

third, to cuestion that arbritariety, which means to restore the diference.

[hyperseauton]

I am jokingly asking, of course. Dennett is a deep thinker but not even in the same post structuralist ballpark as Derrida.