Jacques Derrida Student Edition

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Jacques DerridaStudent Edition
Based on a presentation by Valbona Muca Created
by Brett Ader Edited by Dr. Kay Picart
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• Deconstruction is
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• Derrida
• the system of language ___________________________
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• Levi Straus
• Language requires that ___________________________
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• Deconstruction attacks notions of
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• What is structure?
• What makes up structure?

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Explain the concept of a centered structure.
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• A centered structure _________________________
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• Derridas thesis
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What is the center?
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Destructive discourses.

• Nietzschean critique of metaphysics
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• Freudian critique of self presence
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• Heideggerean destruction of metaphysics
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• Two heterogeneous ways of erasing the difference
  between the signifier and the signified
• 1)the classic way _______________________________
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• 2)the opposition between the sensible and the
  intelligible.
• Paradox _______________________________________
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• Nietzsche, Freud and Heidegger worked within the
  inherited concepts of metaphysics.

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• Two concepts in the elementary Structures
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• The ration supplementaire of signification is the
  origin of the ratio itself.
• Mana is all these things
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Two interpretations of structure, sign and play

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• 2) ________________ ______________________________
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Bibliography

• Derrida Jacques. Truth and Power. Critical
  Theory Since Plato. Ed. Hazard Adams. Florida
  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. pp. 1117-1126.