Deconstruction | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-15

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Deconstruction


00:01:19 1 Overview
00:04:46 2 Influences
00:05:30 2.1 Influence of Nietzsche
00:07:51 2.2 Influence of Saussure
00:10:07 3 Deconstruction according to Derrida
00:10:17 3.1 Etymology
00:10:46 3.2 Basic philosophical concerns
00:12:17 3.3 Différance
00:14:53 3.4 Metaphysics of presence
00:16:07 3.5 Deconstruction and dialectics
00:17:03 4 Difficulty of definition
00:17:28 4.1 Derrida's "negative" descriptions
00:19:22 4.1.1 Not a method
00:21:03 4.1.2 Not a critique
00:22:14 4.1.3 Not an analysis
00:22:54 4.1.4 Not post-structuralist
00:24:57 4.2 Alternative definitions
00:29:03 5 Application
00:29:18 5.1 Literary criticism
00:32:02 5.2 Critique of structuralism
00:32:51 6 Development after Derrida
00:33:01 6.1 The Yale School
00:33:44 6.2 Critical legal studies movement
00:35:00 6.3 iDeconstructing History/i
00:35:36 6.4 iThe Inoperative Community/i
00:36:11 6.5 iThe Ethics of Deconstruction/i
00:36:38 6.6 iDerrida and the Political/i
00:37:43 7 Criticisms
00:38:11 7.1 John Searle
00:46:13 7.2 Jürgen Habermas
00:46:39 7.3 Walter A. Davis
00:47:06 7.4 In popular media
00:48:10 8 See also



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Originated by the philosopher Jacques Derrida, deconstruction is an approach to understanding the relationship between text and meaning. Derrida's approach consisted of conducting readings of texts with an ear to what runs counter to the intended meaning or structural unity of a particular text. The purpose of deconstruction is to show that the usage of language in a given text, and language as a whole, are irreducibly complex, unstable, or impossible. Throughout his readings, Derrida hoped to show deconstruction at work.
Many debates in continental philosophy surrounding ontology, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, hermeneutics, and philosophy of language refer to Derrida's observations. Since the 1980s, these observations inspired a range of theoretical enterprises in the humanities, including the disciplines of law anthropology, historiography, linguistics, sociolinguistics, psychoanalysis, LGBT studies, and the feminist school of thought. Deconstruction also inspired deconstructivism in architecture and remains important within art, music, and literary criticism.While common in continental Europe (and wherever Continental philosophy is in the mainstream), deconstruction is not adopted or accepted by most philosophy departments in universities where analytic philosophy is predominant.