Postmodernism:
Deconstruction:
Reportedly part of the postmodern effort, Derrida the originator of deconstruction. In my opinion it takes some time to understand what Derrida writes but, with struggle, he can.
Why? In 1966, Derrida presented at Johns Hopkins and, apparently, overthrew structuralists with a single paper depending on whom one asks.
Derrida, J. (1966). "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences"
Lindblom What is Structuralism? "The structuralist paradigm in anthropology suggests that the structure of human thought processes is the same in all cultures, and that these mental processes exist in the form of binary oppositions (Winthrop 1991)." Winthrop, R. H. (1991). Dictionary of Concepts in Cultural Anthropology. Greenwood Press: New York. http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/murphy/struct.htm So, what is the problem? "Metaphysics - the white mythology which reassembles and reflects the culture of the West: the white man takes his own mythology, Indo-European mythology, his own 'logos', that is, the 'mythos' of his idiom, for the universal form of that he must still wish to call Reason." Derrida http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/9095/postmodernism.html Who?
credit: Stanford
"This interest led to a 1966 conference at Johns Hopkins University that invited scholars thought to be prominent structuralists, including Derrida, Barthes, and Lacan."
Jacques Derrida
"Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences"
London: Routledge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-structuralism
What else?
"Deconstruction is a term in contemporary philosophy, literary criticism, and the social sciences, denoting a process by which the texts and languages of Western philosophy (in particular) appear to shift and complicate in meaning when read in light of the assumptions and absences they reveal within themselves.
Jacques Derrida coined the term in the 1960s, and proved more forthcoming with negative, rather than a pined-for positive, analyses of the school."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction
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