Derrida in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern

Author:Paul Strathern
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Published: 2000-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Derrida: Mixed Quotes and Mixed Reviews

When I speak, I am conscious of being present for what I think, but also of keeping as close as possible to my thought a signifying substance, a sound carried by my breath.

—Jacques Derrida

All attempts to define deconstruction are bound to be false. . . . One of the principal things in deconstruction is the delimiting of ontology and above all of the third person present indicative: propositions of the form “S is P.”

—Jacques Derrida

As soon as “present speech” “bears witness” to the “truth of this revelation” beyond the true or the false, beyond what is truthful or lying in a given statement or symptom in their relation to a given content, the values of adequation or unveiling no longer even have to await their verification or achievement from the exterior of some object.

—Jacques Derrida

Derrida’s deconstruction attempts to show that “everyday language is not neutral; it bears within it the presuppositions and cultural assumptions of a whole tradition. . . . Maybe this anti-populist yet anti-Platonic element . . . is Derrida’s most important contribution.”

—John Lechte

Derrida is alluding . . . to that long tradition in philosophy, from Plato to Heidegger, which has sought to establish grounds or foundations for reason itself. . . . Such grounds may turn out to be unavailable.

—Christopher Norris

It may be in the questioning of reason itself—a questioning nonetheless patient and meticulously argued—that philosophy can best live up to its present responsibilities.

—Christopher Norris

Derrida was considered by some “the most important philosopher of the late twentieth century. Unfortunately, nobody was sure whether the intellectual movement he spawned—Deconstruction—advanced philosophy or murdered it.”

—Jim Powell

America is an immigrant nation, and as such has “a multiplicity of perspectives on life, language, and behavior that snobbish homogeneous France, suppressing its resident Algerians, lacks. Derrida, an Algerian Jew, had his own private agenda that is not applicable to America.”

—Camille Paglia

Barthes is echoing Derrida’s critique of “the theological simultaneity of the book,” the metaphysical presupposition that the essence of a text is a simultaneous network of reciprocal relationships, and thus that the dimensions of temporality and volume are purely contingent.

—Michael Moriarty

Deconstruction is a theory which appears to lend itself most readily to babbling obfuscation.

—Peter Lennon

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