Derrida warns against considering deconstruction as a mechanical operation when he states that “ It is true that in certain circles ( university or cultural, especially in the United States ) the technical and methodological “ metaphor ” that seems necessarily attached to the very word “ deconstruction ” has been able to seduce or lead astray .” Commentator Richard Beardsworth explains that

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.

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.

Derrida states that deconstruction is not an analysis in the traditional sense.

Derrida states that his use of the word deconstruction first took place in a context in which " structuralism was dominant " and its use is related to this context.

Derrida states that deconstruction is an " antistructuralist gesture " because " Structures were to be undone, decomposed, desedimented.

Derrida states that “ the motif of deconstruction has been associated with " poststructuralism "" but that this term was " a word unknown in France until its “ return ” from the United States.

* David B. Allison is an early translator of Derrida and states in the introduction to his translation of Speech and Phenomena that: signifies a project of critical thought whose task is to locate and ' take apart ' those concepts which serve as the axioms or rules for a period of thought, those concepts which command the unfolding of an entire epoch of metaphysics.

Both the concepts of rogue states and the " Axis of Evil " have been criticized by certain scholars, including philosopher Jacques Derrida and linguist Noam Chomsky, who considered it more or less a justification of imperialism and a useful word for propaganda.

Derrida states that his own childhood experiences with anti-Semitism have heightened his sensitivity to racial issues.

In Of Grammatology, Derrida states that grammatology is not a " science of man " because it is concerned with the question of " the name of man.

So for Derrida deconstruction involves “ a certain attention to structures " and tries to “ understand how an ' ensemble ' was constituted.

*( 1973 ) “ Speech and Phenomena ” and Other Essays on Husserl ’ s Theory of Signs, Jacques Derrida

Ricoeur e Derrida a “ margine ” della fenomenologia ", ESD, Bologna 2006.

Hence, Derrida intentionally merges the two terms phallocentrism and logocentrism as “ phallogocentrism ”.

In William Harmon ’ s A Handbook to Literature, for example, aporia is identified as “ a difficulty, impasse, or point of doubt and indecision ” while also noting that critics such as Derrida have employed the term to “ indicate a point of undecidability, which locates the site at which the text most obviously undermines its own rhetorical structure, dismantles, or deconstructs itself ” ( 39 ).

According to Jacques Derrida, meaning in the West is defined in terms of binary oppositions, “ a violent hierarchy ” where “ one of the two terms governs the other .” Within the white / black binary opposition in the United States, the African American is defined as a devalued other.

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.

Richard Beardsworth, developing on Critchley's Ethics of Deconstruction, argues in his 1996 Derrida and the Political that deconstruction is an intrinsically political practice.

* Video of Jacques Derrida attempting to define " Deconstruction "

* " German Law Journal special number about Derrida and Deconstruction "

* Derrida, Van Til and the Metaphysics of Postmodernism An appraisal of Postmodernism, specifically Deconstruction, in light of Van Til by Jacob Gabriel Hale.

Derrida and Deconstruction influenced aesthetics, literary criticism, architecture, film theory, anthropology, sociology, historiography, law, psychoanalysis, theology, feminism, gay and lesbian studies and political theory.

) ( 1997 ) Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida.

), Deconstruction and Pragmatism, with essays by Simon Critchley, Ernesto Laclau, Richard Rorty, and Derrida.

), Deconstruction and Philosophy, with essays by Rodolphe Gasché, John D. Caputo, Robert Bernasconi, David Wood, and Derrida.

* Stiegler, Bernard, " Derrida and Technology: Fidelity at the Limits of Deconstruction and the Prosthesis of Faith ," in Tom Cohen ( ed.

Jacques Derrida and Deconstruction New York Times Magazine.

The four critics listed above, along with Derrida, contributed to an influential anthology, Deconstruction and Criticism.

In his introduction to Deconstruction and Criticism, Hartman draws a distinction between Derrida, Miller, and de Man on the one hand, and himself and Bloom on the other.

*" Deconstruction as Social Critique: Derrida on Marx and the New World Order ," essay on Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx in History and Theory, October, 1998.

Critchley ’ s first book was The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas ( Blackwell, 1992 ), which became an acclaimed source on deconstruction and was the first book to argue for an ethical dimension to deconstruction.

* ( 1992 ) The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, ( 2nd edition, 1999 )

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.

In the deconstruction procedure, one of the main concerns of Derrida is not to collapse into Hegel ´ s dialectic where these oppositions would be reduced to contradictions in a dialectic whose telos would, necessarily, be to resolve it into a synthesis,

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Derrida argues that language is inescapably metaphysical because it is made up of signifiers that only refer to that which transcends them-the signified.

" By this Derrida means that all claims to know something necessarily involve an assertion of the metaphysical type that something is the case somewhere.