In philosophy and the humanities, Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, was born in El Biar in Algiers ; Malek Bennabi and Frantz Fanon are noted for their thoughts on decolonization ; Augustine of Hippo was born in Tagaste ( modern-day Souk Ahras ); and Ibn Khaldun, though born in Tunis, wrote the Muqaddima while staying in Algeria.

Postmodern theoretical apparatus, e. g. Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas

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From the 1960s and 1970s onward, language, symbolism, text, and meaning came to be seen as the theoretical foundation for the humanities, through the influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ferdinand de Saussure, George Herbert Mead, Noam Chomsky, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida and other thinkers in linguistic and analytic philosophy, structural linguistics, symbolic interactionism, hermeneutics, semiology, linguistically oriented psychoanalysis ( Jacques Lacan, Alfred Lorenzer ), and deconstruction.

Jacques Derrida has had a huge influence on contemporary political theory and political philosophy.

* Jacques Derrida on deconstruction

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* Derrida, Jacques Letter to A Japanese Friend, in Wood, David and Bernasconi, Robert ( eds., 1988 ) Derrida and Différance, Warwick: Parousia, 1985

* Video of Jacques Derrida attempting to define " Deconstruction "

* Jacques Derrida: The Perchance of a Coming of the Otherwoman.

Jacques Derrida argued that access to meaning and the ' real ' was always deferred, and sought to demonstrate via recourse to the linguistic realm that " There is nothing outside the text "; at the same time, Jean Baudrillard theorised that signs and symbols or simulacra mask reality ( and eventually the absence of reality itself ), particularly in the consumer world.

Jacques Derrida wrote several critical studies of Husserl early in his academic career.

* Derrida, Jacques, 1954 ( French ), 2003 ( English ).

Postmodern theoretical apparatus, e. g., Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas

Postmodernists and Post-Structuralists such as Richard Rorty and Jacques Derrida have attacked foundationalism on the grounds that the truth of a statement or discourse is only verifiable in accordance with other statements and discourses.

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Jacques Derrida, whose deconstruction is perhaps most commonly labeled nihilistic, did not himself make the nihilistic move that others have claimed.

In the interviews collected in Positions ( 1972 ), Derrida said: " In this essay the problematic of writing was already in place as such, bound to the irreducible structure of ' deferral ' in its relationships to consciousness, presence, science, history and the history of science, the disappearance or delay of the origin, etc.

This essay was later collected in Dissemination, one of three books published by Derrida in 1972, along with the essay collection Margins of Philosophy and the collection of interviews entitled Positions.

* Derrida ( 1967 ) interview with Henri Ronse, republished in Positions ( English edition by Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1981 ).

* Derrida ( 1971 ) interview with Guy Scarpetta, republished in Positions ( English edition by Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1981 ).

*( 1981 ) Positions, Jacques Derrida

Also influential in these issues were Nietzsche, Heidegger, the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, Derrida and Lacan.

Many of today's academics that employ the term, cultural imperialism, are heavily informed by the work of Foucault, Derrida, Said, and other poststructrualist and postcolonialist theorists.

Derrida proposed the deconstruction of all texts where binary oppositions are used in the construction of meaning and values.

According to Derrida, deconstruction should traverse a phase of " overturning " these oppositions.

Derrida approaches all texts as constructed around elemental oppositions which all discourse has to articulate if it intends to make any sense whatsoever.

Derrida will prefer to follow the more " fruitful paths ( formalization )" of a general semiotics without falling in what he considered " a hierarchizing teleology " privileging linguistics, and speak of ' mark ' rather than of language, not as something restricted to mankind, but as prelinguistic, as the pure possibility of language, working every where there is a relation to something else.

This structural difference is the first component that Derrida will take into account when articulating the meaning of différance, a mark he felt the need to create and will become a fundamental tool in his life long work: deconstruction.

But, as Derrida also points out, these relations with other terms don ’ t express only meaning but also values.

There is one statement by Derrida which he regarded as the axial statement of his whole essay on Rousseau ( part of the highly influential Of Grammatology, 1967 ), and which is perhaps his most quoted and famous statement ever.

Critics of Derrida have countless times quoted it as a slogan to characterize and stigmatize deconstruction.

Derrida would argue there about the problem he found in the constant appeal to " normality " in the analytical tradition from which Austin and Searle were only paradigmatic examples.

Derrida states that “ Deconstruction is not a method and cannot be transformed into one .” This is because deconstruction is not a mechanical operation.

Derrida is careful to avoid this term because it carries connotations of a procedural form of judgement.

For Derrida [...] this is irresponsibility itself.

Each deconstruction is necessarily different ( otherwise it achieves no work ) and this is why Derrida states that “ Deconstruction takes place, it is an event .” On the other hand, deconstruction cannot be completely untranscendental because this would make it meaningless to, for example, speak of two different examples of deconstruction as both being examples of deconstruction.

It is for this reason that Richard Rorty asks if Derrida should be considered a quasi-transcendental philosopher that operates in the tension between the demands of the empirical and the transcendental.

Deconstruction is therefore not a method in the traditional sense but is what Derrida terms " an unclosed, unenclosable, not wholly formalizable ensemble of rules for reading, interpretation and writing.

Derrida states that deconstruction is not a critique in the Kantian sense. This is because Kant defines the term critique as the opposite of dogmatism.

For Derrida it is not possible to escape the dogmatic baggage of the language we use in order to perform a pure critique in the Kantian sense.

For Derrida language is dogmatic because it is inescapably metaphysical.