Flipped Learning Activity: Derrida and Deconstruction
1. Why is it difficult to define Deconstruction?
2. Is Deconstruction a negative term?
3. How does Deconstruction happen on its own?
-It is consistently question which are asking by Derrida throughout his life.
-Is it possible to define something?
-What are the limits on to what extent can we define something?
-In French ‘Deconstruction’ too obviously implied an annihilation and a negative reduction much closer to Nietzschean demolition.
- Deconstruction is not destructive activity but an inquiry into the foundations.
“Letter to a Japanese Friend”
(1st July 1983) to
professor Tsutsui
-Derrida argues is based on distinctions on binary oppositions.
1. Why is it difficult to define Deconstruction? 2. Is Deconstruction a negative term? 3. How does Deconstruction happen on its own? -It is consistently question which are asking by Derrida throughout his life. -Is it possible to define something? -What are the limits on to what extent can we define something? -In French ‘Deconstruction’ too obviously implied an annihilation and a negative reduction much closer to Nietzschean demolition. - Deconstruction is not destructive activity but an inquiry into the foundations. “Letter to a Japanese Friend” (1st July 1983) to professor Tsutsui -Derrida argues is based on distinctions on binary oppositions.
Video:2 Derrida & Deconstruction - Heideggar
1. The influence of Heidegger on Derrida2. Derrida rethinking on the foundation of western philosophy3. The seeds of Deconstruction sprouted from Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)
✯ Three important thinkers-Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)-Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)-Friedrich Nietzche (1844–1900)
- The term ‘destruction’ in French is one of the many direct connections between Heidegger & Derrida.-Man is deconstructed from the language-The tendency in the western philosophy to repress or neglect writing or as Derrida calls it ‘phonocentricism’is a manifestation of ‘Logocentricism’of the western metaphysics – the tendency to privilege presence over absence.
1. The influence of Heidegger on Derrida
2. Derrida rethinking on the foundation of western philosophy
3. The seeds of Deconstruction sprouted from Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)
✯ Three important thinkers
-Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)
-Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
-Friedrich Nietzche (1844–1900)
- The term ‘destruction’ in French is one of the many direct connections between Heidegger & Derrida.
-Man is deconstructed from the language
-The tendency in the western philosophy to repress or neglect writing or as Derrida calls it ‘phonocentricism’
is a manifestation of ‘Logocentricism’
of the western metaphysics – the tendency to privilege presence over absence.
Video:3 Derrida & Deconstruction - Ferdinand de Saussure
1.How Derrida deconstructs the idea of arbitrariness?
2.Metaphysics of presence
-What connects a sound with its meaning or as sign? – sound with its meaning is the convention and the convention is always social.
-Derrida points out that the meaning of the word is nothing but the other word.
-Metaphysics of presence is a term taken from Heidegger.
-Western philosophy is built on the differences, binary oppositions – just like human language.
-There is no positive element in language but only negative one.
-What is woman? = woman is seen as absence of the manliness.
-Good vs. Evil – Binary opposition is
Them evil is which lacks goodness
and what is good; good is something
which lacks evil.
-Derrida points out that these oppositions are not equal but hierarchic
where the second term is considered either derivative or inferior to the first, the privileged one.
Video:4 Derrida and Deconstruction - DifferAnce
Video:4 Derrida and Deconstruction - DifferAnce
1.Derridan concept of “DifferAnce”2.Infinite play of meaning3.DifferAnce = to differ & to defer the meaning
-What Derrida is questioning is what do you mean by “understand”
One word leads to another wordand that word leads to yet another...and finally we never come outof the dictionary.
-Saussurean sign is equal to signifierwhich signifies something; but Derrideansign is free play of signifiers.signifying nothing.-Meaning is always postponed.-Derrida combines two terms differ and defer.-You can never pronounce it (speak) it differently. You can only spell (write) it differently.-Derrida is drawing attention towards difference between speech and writing.He questions privilege of speech over writing.-Difference is not an idea or a concept but a force which makes differentiation possible, which makes postponing possible.-It is both negative and positive. At the same time. DifferAnce is neither positive nor negative.-Phonocentricism is the tendency in the western philosophy to privilege speech over writing.
1.Derridan concept of “DifferAnce”
2.Infinite play of meaning
3.DifferAnce = to differ & to defer the meaning
-What Derrida is questioning is what do you mean by “understand”
One word leads to another word
and that word leads to yet another...
and finally we never come out
of the dictionary.
-Saussurean sign is equal to signifier
which signifies something; but Derridean
sign is free play of signifiers.
signifying nothing.
-Meaning is always postponed.
-Derrida combines two terms differ and defer.
-You can never pronounce it (speak) it differently. You can only spell (write) it differently.
-Derrida is drawing attention towards difference between speech and writing.
He questions privilege of speech over writing.
-Difference is not an idea or a concept but a force which makes differentiation possible, which makes postponing possible.
-It is both negative and positive. At the same time. DifferAnce is neither positive nor negative.
-Phonocentricism is the tendency in the western philosophy to privilege speech over writing.
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