Deconstruction written by Jacques Derrida. in this slide I wrote about Jacques Derrida , Definition of Deconstruction , Theory of Deconstruction , Organization of Deconstruction and also Binary Opposition and Main Characteristic.

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3. JACQUES DERRIDA.
( 1930 – 2004 )
 Derrida was one of the most well known 20th century
philosopher.
 French Theorist, Philosopher and Writer.
 His areas of study include philosophy , literary criticism
and literary theory.
 Studied Philosophy at a very prestigious school in Paris,
Ecole Normale Superieure.
 He received a great deal of popularity for his theories
and writing style, and equally as much criticism for them.
 In 1967, he introduced the theory of Deconstruction.

4. JACQUES DERRIDA. ( 1930 – 2004 )
 Jacques Derrida is responsible for the pervasive
phenomenon in modern literary and cultural theory
known as “Deconstruction”.
 Derrida has conducted Deconstructive readings of
numerous major thinker.
 Derrida’s seminal work , “Structure, Sign, and Play”
exhibits some of the persistent concerns of
deconstruction and reveals both what he owes to
structuralism and his divergence from it.

5. DEFINITION OF DECONSTUCTION :
 Deconstruction is not a theory unified by an set of
consistent rules or procedures.
 It has been variously regarded as a way of reading ,
a mode of writing, and above all, a way of
challenging interpretations of texts based upon
conventional notions of the stability of the human
self , the external world, and of language and
meaning.

6. THEORY OF DECONSTRUCTION
 According to Derrida :
 “ Deconstruction seems to center around
the idea that language and meaning are
often inadequate in trying to convey the
message or idea a communicator is
trying to express. Since the confusion
stems from the language and not the
object then one should break down or
deconstruct the language to see if we
can better understand where the
confusion stems.”

7. ORIGINS OF DECONSTRUCTION
 Derrida’s main influence for the development of this
theory was from the theorist, Martin Heidegger.
 In his work called ‘Being and Time’. Heidegger talks
about “ Destructing” of previous ontological concept
such as time, history, matter, etc. in order to better
understand them.

8. BINARY OPPOSITION
 Words have binary opposites like good/evil,
mind/body, speech/writing. Usually one side is
valued higher than the other. This creates
difficulties that deconstruction aims to correct.
 By deconstructing these binary oppositions, we are
able to uncover the foundation.
 Derrida argues that philosophical traditions were
largely “marginalized,” and with the application of
deconstruction, it is possible to express what has
been repressed in these traditions.

9. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS.
 Deconstruction is often regarded as
undermining of all tendency toward
systematization.
 The most fundamental project of
Deconstruction is to display the operations
of “Logocentrism” in any “Text”.
 Logocentrism refers to any system of
thought which is founded on the stability
and authority.

10. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
 Deconstruction tries to reinstate language within the
connections of the various terms that have
conventionally dominated Western thought: the
connections between thought and reality, self and
world, subject and object.
 For Deconstructionists, there is no “truth” or “reality”
which somehow stands outside or behind
Language: truth is a relation of linguistic terms and
reality is a construct, ultimately religion, social,
political and economical, but always of language, of
various linguistic registers.

11. WORKS CITED
 Guney Kaan &, Güney Ajda. A Brief Description of
Jacques Derrida's Deconstruction and
Hermeneutics. December 2007-2008. 27 February
2020 <https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-
file/186848>.
 Noel, Gough. The SAGE Encyclopedia of
Qualitative Research Methods (New York : Sage).
2008. 27 February 2020
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