Flipped learning task on ' Derrida and Deconstruction '

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This Blog-post is a response to Flipped Learning task on 'Derrida and Deconstruction' given by our professor Dr.Dilip Barad Sir.

Derrida  and  Deconstruction :-

Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was the founder of “deconstruction,” a way of criticizing not only both literary and philosophical texts but also political institutions. Although Derrida at times expressed regret concerning the fate of the word “deconstruction,” its popularity indicates the wide-ranging influence of his thought, in philosophy, in literary criticism and theory, in art and, in particular, architectural theory, and in political theory. Indeed, Derrida’s fame nearly reached the status of a media star, with hundreds of people filling auditoriums to hear him speak, with films and televisions programs devoted to him, with countless books and articles devoted to his thinking. Beside critique, Derridean deconstruction consists in an attempt to re-conceive the difference that divides self-consciousness. But even more than the re-conception of difference, and perhaps more importantly, deconstruction attempts to render justice. Indeed, deconstruction is relentless in this pursuit since justice is impossible to achieve.

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Why it is difficult to define Deconstruction?

Is Deconstruction a negative term?

How does deconstruction happen on its own?

Dr.Sachin describe the term, Deconstruction is not a destructive activity, but an inquiry into the foundation causes of intellectual. However, Derrida himself refuses to define Deconstruction. Dr. Sachin say that it is not a negative operation. Derrida wants to transform the way people think. The entire structure of Western Philosophy or thought has to be transformed and he also wants to emphasize and takes this from Heidegger's project. Which he wants to translate from German to French. 

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The influence of Heidegger to Derrida

Derridian rethinking on the foundation of Western philosophy.

Dr. Sachin say that Derrida's acknowledgment of three famous philosophers, Martin Heidegger, Sigmund Freud, and Friedrich Nietzsche in his very famous essay 'Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences'.

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What Derrida Decounstruts the idea of arbitrariness?

Metaphysics of presence.

 Ferdinand de Saussure is 'Course in General Linguistics' that, the relation between word and meaning is not natural, it's a conventional one.  The word Sister has no natural relationship with the person but it's just a convention that connects the word sister with the person. Word can be used to talk about anything but what connects a word with its meaning or as a signal with its meaning is the convention and the convention is always Social. Derrida that the meaning of the word is nothing but the other word. Heidegger pointed out in Metaphysics of Presence that when we consider being of something we often connect with its presence. Heidegger is saying that we seem to connect presence and as proof of its existence as more of its being. Then Derrida says that Western philosophy is again built on the different binary positions. 

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Derridian concept of 'DifferAnce'

Infinite play of meaning

DifferAnce - to differ & to defer the meaning

  Dr. Sachin Ketkar  describe the Derrida is questioning is, what do you mean by understand. If meaning of word like interest is a group of another words. 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. Derrida combine two term' differ' and 'defer'. Pun it means to differ is also mean differentiate. Derrida is drawing attention towards different between speech and writing. He questions privilege of speech over writing. 'DefferAnce' - difference is not an idea or a concept but a force which makes differentiate possible.

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Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences

"Language bears within itself the necessity of its own critique."

"Language bears within itself the necessity of its own critique". Discussing your structure sign and play is one of the very important documents of contemporary literary theory as it inaugurates what is known as post structuralism in 1967 by post structuralism we mean not outright rejection or criticism of structuralism but going beyond by critiquing structuralism so the essay is actually a critic of and who are very famous anthropologist who made structuralism very popular. The centre is paradoxically within the structure and outside it. The totality has its centre as where the centre is not the centre.