Derrida and Deconstruction | Peter Salmon

What is 'Deconstruction'? Derrida himself said it was an ugly word, but one that was associated most with his name.

[brandonmiles]

Reading Peter's book now, and loving it. Thanks so much to Peter and Verso for this work and great insight into the mind and life of this highly interesting man.

[InfoForYou]

Great explanation of deconstruction. I’m excited to read Peter’s biography of Derrida.

[silviagonzalezdelasheras]

amazing explanation! after reading tones of Derrida´s summaries, finally I have found the perfect video which explains everything clear.

[Karakta]

I think you overlooked the most important thing about deconstruction : the "scars" in the text you mention are, as far as I understood Derrida, the binary oppositions that tend to marginalize a term in favor of its opposite. Deconstruction questions the very basis of these oppositions and the hierarchy they beget. Ultimately, deconstruction tends to show that the marginalized term can be equally favored by shifting one's way of reading and that, in fact, the favorization of a term can only occur by admitting the centrality of its opposite. Thus, at the end of the day, the main point of deconstruction is to deny the idea of a center in any system or any text : any term can be a center and thus no term is ACTUALLY the center. Stability is shaken and thus claims to truth inside a text in an absolute sense is nullified.

[gonzogil]

1:45min He has influenced Socrates (the guy that drunk poison) and "Beckett" and Tariq Ali.

[damirvaldgoni]

Dekonstrukcioniste ne zanima istina več samo kako je riječ istina konstruirana?

Fali li svim dekonstrukcionistima daska u glavi?
Ili samo nekima?