The-deconstruction-theory

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I will be examining Derrida's texts on Heidegger in order to establish a relationship between Derrida's deconstruction and Heidegger's destruction. Derrida, while acknowledging the importance of aletheia for radicalizing the notion of truth for Western philosophy, establishes some distance from Heidegger in his readings of Heidegger's post-metaphysics and postrepresentational thinking. Derrida argues that Heidegger's negation of metaphysics does not manage to overcome or destroy metaphysics as he sets out to do, because his reversals of metaphysics remain bound to the ontological structure and vocabulary of metaphysics. Basically he asserts that non-metaphysics or a reversal of metaphysics remains a form of metaphysics and is no different from metaphysics. Although Heidegger's attempts to overcome representational thinking in Aletheia retain some semblance to representational thinking, since the assumption of the Platonic thing-in-itself is implicit in the concealed entity and its utility and equipmentality becomes its unconcealed entity, Heidegger betrays a dual ontological structure that resembles metaphysics.

2014

In this paper I will examine Heidegger’s move to set out the task of philosophy as the destruction of metaphysics to move into the realm of ontology, or an inquiry into the being of Being. I will read destruction in various Heidegger texts and point out its problematic as suggested by Derrida, that every instance of the destruction of metaphysics is in fact a repetition of it as it borrows entirely from the structure of metaphysics it sets out to destroy. The impossibility of the distinction between the transcendental and empirical is its own possibility as differance between the transcendental and empirical distinguishes and separates nothing, hence Heidegger’s anti-metaphysics and post-representation is no different from the transcendental idealism he destroys. Derrida thus rescues the phenomenological project by discovering the quasi-transcendental, that which is neither transcendental nor empirical, as the condition that allows the thinking of both through iterability and differ...

Philobiblon, 2017

Derrida's deconstruction is closely related to Heidegger's programme of Destruktion, philosophy of difference and formulation of the claim of transcending metaphysics. In spite of the similarities and differences of Destruktion and deconstruction, Heidegger's thinking proves to be unavoidable for Derrida. Nevertheless Derrida's deconstruction can be interpreted as the deconstruction of the Heideggerian Destruktion. This study will outline the central points of the philosophy of Destruktion and deconstruction.

Influenced by Nietzsche and Heidegger, French thought at the end of the 1960s defined itself by the task of reversing Platonism, that is, by reversing the positing of and belief in a transcendent world behind or above the actual world (Deleuze 1995: 59-66). Deleuze and Derrida, in particular, spoke respectively of destroying and deconstructing metaphysics (Derrida 2011: 64; Deleuze 1990: 266). 1 The attempt to deconstruct metaphysics, however, is not simple. Because we can never escape metaphysical language -our words are sedimented with meaning inherited from Plato -we can never establish a presuppositionless starting point for a method. Therefore, when Derrida, at the end of the '60s, spoke of deconstruction, he defined it as a strategy (Derrida 1997b: 157-64). As we shall see, not only must we strategize to escape the metaphysical system, but also we must undergo a transformative experience.

Journal of Literary Studies, 1993

This paper aims at clarifying some aspects of the relationship between deconstruction and theory, and of the definition of "theory" as such. The specific quality of this relationship becomes indistinct if deconstruction is merely regarded as a method of theory, and only becomes evident once considerable attention has been paid to the role of metaphor and of strategy in the text of deconstruction, and to the particular ways in which these two notions are elaborated upon by Derrida. A confrontation with structuralism (unavoidably brief) contributes to the attempt of presenting some distinctive traits pertaining to deconstruction with regard to "theory".

2020

This article defines and presents the meaning and significance of "deconstruction" in modern critical theory. It reveals the overview of "deconstruction" as a theory of reading texts, and it explains the philosophical foundations of deconstructive thinking, through the Derridean critiques of Plato, Martin Heidegger and Ferdinand de Saussure. The article proposes also to expose how "deconstruction" is used in various fields of study today, asserts the philosophical status of the deconstructive theory and assesses its contribution to knowledge in general.