POSTSTRUCTURALISM & DECONSTRUCTION

Born in France, late 60's CHARACTERISTICS Roland BARTHES Jaques DERRIDA TASK ANALYSIS WAR 3 STAGES APORIA

UNCERTAINTY DECENTRED TONE/STYLE LINGUISTIC ANXIETY CONSTRUCTED SUBJECT Book "The Death of Lecture "Structure, Sign Book "Of Poststructuralism etimology: Poststructuralism Verbal Textual Linguistic Impasse
UNIVERSE the Author" and Play in the Grammatology" literary critic 'to undo' looks for disunity in
Discourse of the the text
Human Sciences"

post-structuralism's origin vs. structuralism's abstraction

"The text is at war Conventional Overall view Unreliability Self-contradictory knots
Structuralism: Philosophy Nothing fixed = No Emotive & showy Is it possible to Verbal sign ≠ Concept Structuralism Post-structuralism: Textual Intellectual event: Writer lets himself be "There is nothing with itself" close reading (larger scale) of language
language shapes landmark get *any* (or rather, free of it) believes in reliability distrust for 'reason' independence "decentring of our governed by the outside the text"
reality knowledge from intellectual universe" "system" (language)
language?

Paradoxes (verbal Breaks in show Instabilities Example: saying that "No poet wept him"
lvl.) continuity of attitude something is but he's a poet and
consequences philosophy is We don't control language, so Text is Text is loosely associated with Could mean Or rather
unsayable he's weeping, wha?
'how' we see Nothing is fixed Sceptical by nature: we No landmark = No centre Aim for engaged Meanings aren't 100% Individual = Product of so Human beings ≠ Free, Produced by the reader break from No absolute or Nietzche's and There is nothing for There is nothing
is 'what' we beyond language can't know anything for warmth pure social & linguistic forces Independent entities impossible to (NOT the author) past ways of fixed points Heidegger's philosophy us to "reconstruct" untouched by textuality
see certain (except that we unify/limit thought + Freud's
know nothing for certain) psychoanalysis

w/o this "First death / no Thomas speaks of "Refusal to Mourn"

other" aeons & end of the and then he mourns
world (future)
Can be related to definition of 'centre' deconstructed, so if we translate literally

Gravity-free No certain Nietzche: "There are no We can't know where we "decentred" Contaminated "man" as measure, as Universe Free play (instead Reading must be "Il n'y a pas de hors-texte" =
and therefore
universe: w/o standard to facts, only are by their centre --> variations = inherently of deviation from "deconstructive", "There is no outside-text" (lt.)
gravity no up/ measure interpretations" opposites 'other', marginal relativistic a known centre) and produce the
down anything text
Also speaks of history
(past)

I relate it to (don't use in exam)

Socrates: "I know that Related to Derrida's No "good" w/o No authoritative center "hors-texte" = all parts of book
I know nothing" lecture "Structure, Sign "evil", no "day" w/o not contained in page numbers:
and Play in the Discourse "night" part of the book, but not there
part oftranslated, Derrida could be saying
so, loosely is no
that Why? It's not
of the Human Sciences" the text outside-text to
understandable
reality

Again, Nietzsche

STRUCTURALISM VS.
POSTSTRUCTURALISM

STRUCTURALISM POSTSTRUCTURALISM

seeks to show seeks to show

Unity & coherence Disunity

Parallels Reflections Symmetry Contrasts Patterns Paradoxes Breaks Conflicts Omissions Linguistic quirks Aporia