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

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 “ 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Questioned this myth of the presence of meaning in itself (" objective ") and / or for itself (" subjective ") Derrida will start a long deconstruction of all texts where conceptual oppositions are put to work in the actual construction of meaning and values based on the subordination of the movement of " differance ":

This explains why Derrida always proposes new terms in his deconstruction, not as a free play but as a pure necessity of analysis, to better mark the intervals:

Some examples of these new terms created by Derrida clearly exemplify the deconstruction procedure:

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,

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

" At the same time for Derrida deconstruction is also a " structuralist gesture " because it is concerned with the structure of texts.

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

" As both a structuralist and an antistructuralist gesture deconstruction is tied up with what Derrida calls the " structural problematic.

It is for this reason that Derrida distances his use of the term deconstruction from poststructuralism, a term that would suggest philosophy could simply go beyond structuralism.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In 1983, Searle told to The New York Review of Books a remark on Derrida allegedly made by Michel Foucault in a private conversation with Searle himself ; Derrida later despised Searle's gesture as gossip, and also condemned as violent the use of a mass circulation magazine to fight an academic debate.

Nancy's work is an important development of deconstruction because it takes the challenge of deconstruction seriously and attempts to develop an understanding of political terms that is undeconstructable and therefore suitable for a philosophy after Derrida.

In Jacques Derrida's response, " Sokal and Bricmont Aren't Serious ," first published in Le Monde, Derrida writes that the Sokal hoax is rather " sad ," not only because Alan Sokal's name is now linked primarily to a hoax, not to science, but also because the chance to reflect seriously on these issues has been ruined for a broad public forum that deserves better.

Derrida said this phase was structural and that it was " the necessity of an interminable analysis " because " the hierarchy of dual oppositions always reestablishes itself ".

The memoir became cause for controversy, because shortly before Derrida published his piece, it had been discovered by the Belgian literary critic Ortwin de Graef that long before his academic career in the US, de Man had written almost two hundred essays in a pro-Nazi newspaper during the German occupation of Belgium, including several that were explicitly antisemitic.

Derrida suggested, however, that the success of Fukuyama's book was precisely because it served to cover up and conceal the contradictions and conflicts continuing to pervade late postmodern capitalism.

In one scene, Derrida comments that he would be most interested in hearing about famous philosophers ' sex lives because this topic is seldom addressed in their writings.

In Jacques Derrida's response, " Sokal and Bricmont Aren't Serious ," first published in Le Monde, Derrida writes that the Sokal hoax is rather " sad ," not only because Alan Sokal's name is now linked primarily to a hoax, not to science, but also because the chance to reflect seriously on this issue has been ruined for a broad public forum that deserves better.

In Jacques Derrida's response, " Sokal and Bricmont Aren't Serious ," first published in Le Monde, Derrida writes that the Sokal hoax is rather " sad ," not only because Alan Sokal's name is now linked primarily to a hoax, not science, but also because the chance to reflect seriously on this issue has been ruined for a broad public forum that deserves better.

For example, Searle notes that, in developing his " deconstruction " method, Jacques Derrida altered the truth value of one of Saussure's key concepts: " The correct claim that the elements of the language only function as elements because of the differences they have from one another is converted into the false claim that the elements [...] are ' constituted on ' ( Derrida ) the traces of these other elements.