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deconstruction
An approach to the reading of literary and philosophical texts that casts doubt upon the possibility of finding in them a definitive meaning, and traces instead the multiplication (or ...
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Christopher Norris
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)
Neologism coined by the philosopher of deconstruction Jacques Derrida through a punning play on the French verb ‘différer’, meaning both ‘to differ’ and ‘to defer’. The term figures ...
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difference
1. Being unlike something else, or unlike other people, in some way. The marking of difference constitutes identity—especially in relation to gender, ethnicity, class, and age. In some contexts, an ...
dissemination
Deriving from a form of the Latin disseminare (‘to scatter seed’), the term ‘dissemination’ means, in connection with manuscripts, the distribution or circulation of copies of a particular work. See ...
écriture
[ay-kri-tewr]The French word for ‘writing’. Where it appears in this form in English texts, it refers to one or more specific senses used by modern French theorists: 1. Writing as style, in Roland ...
indeterminacy
Unpredictability in outcome, because a very large number of interrelated factors are involved and/or because understanding of the particular system is still quite limited.
Jacques Derrida
(1930–2004)French philosopher of poststructuralism, who introduced the philosophical and literary method known as deconstruction.Like his contemporary Althusser, Derrida was a native of Algiers who ...
logocentrism
Compare scriptism.1. (logocentricism) For Derrida, a Western tendency to build philosophical systems on a transcendent signified: see also absent presence; deconstruction; foundationalism; ...
phonocentrism
The privileging or prioritizing of the acoustic or phonic dimension of language over the graphic or written dimension. As Jacques Derrida demonstrates with his concept différance, which in French is ...
post-structuralism
[Th]A relativist philosophy based on the ideas and works of a number of French scholars working in the 1960s, notably Derrida, Lacan, Foucault, Barthes, and Kristeva, to develop earlier thinking by ...
slippage of meaning
In contrast to the stability of the relationship between signifier and signified in Saussure's structuralist conception of language, as Lacan puts it, there is ‘an incessant sliding of the signified ...
Third Space
A creative space that lies between the discourse or position of the ruling subject and the discourse or position of the subaltern subject. This, according to the term's originator Homi Bhabha, is ...
