The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory, 2nd Edition

8DECONSTRUCTION

ANDREW BENJAMIN

 

 

 

 

AND DECONSTRUCTION — WHAT IS IT?

Deconstruction is on the side of the yes, of the affirmation of life.

Jacques Derrida (2004)

Generosity of the invisible.

Our Gratitude is infinite.

The criteria is hospitality.

Edmond Jabès (1991)

Deconstruction is as much an intellectual and political movement as a position within philosophy. Deconstruction, in fact, complicates any clear distinction between such possibilities. At its inception deconstruction was the term for a specific philosophical project identified with the proper name Jacques Derrida. The impact of that name, plus the project associated with it, has had a profound effect on the humanities and the social sciences, with a recognition from the start ...