Jacques Derrida in 1 Minute

Introduces the ideas of philosopher Jacques Derrida in one minute flat. Written and created by Mark Fullmer, M.A., English, Boston College. http://markfullmer.com

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Jacques Derrida
• theory
• deconstructionism
• poststructuralism
• phallogocentrism
• differance
• mark fullmer
• lord of the rings
• analysis
• literary

[aura113]

please tell me where you got that guy sitting on the chair with shitload of papers around him photo from?

[markobooko]

@aura113 Youtube doesn't let me post the link, but if you google "professor messy desk" it should appear on the first page of images. 

[ciberlucia]

THIS IS BULLSHIT, show some respect to Derrida

[redux0]

you have totally misunderstood structuralism - you conflate it with historicism. Structuralism advocated the 'death of the author'. Read Barthes.

[mousseva]

we need more of those!!!

[lolzroflz]

This is brilliant!

[featheon]

Wow, this guy stinks at explication. It's pretty much value judgements from start to stop with nothing about the relationship of deconstruction to previous forms of literary theory, which is precisely what one would expect to be important whenever an author claims to have created a theoretical paradigm.

[tiiimtiiimtiiim]

wtf did i just watch??????????

[dovesandclouds]

would prefer if it was 2 min. it's so quick I can barely hear

[BuBBaGump014]

@asinkingship [Derrida feared that people would reduce his philosophy or misinterpret his words...]

How can one misinterpret his work when he himself advocated the position that the meaning of a text is not only divorced from but also continues on without its author? Deconstructionists, indeed, often seem perfectly willing to use the power of their position, often as academic professionals, to punish people who disagree. Good thing meaning and truth are axiomatically independent, eh?

[asinkingship]

@Gidwan

Derrida feared that people would reduce his philosophy or misinterpret his words, I just wonder what he would think this one minute video.

[Gidwan]

@asinkingship

really? I thought all of Derrida's work could easily fit into a minute? /sarcasm