Baraiya Bhavna P. was a student in Sem 2 of 2012-13 with Roll No. 3. The document discusses post-structuralism and deconstruction, explaining that post-structuralism dismantles the idea of a universal structure to reality and that deconstruction reveals the slippery nature of concepts like truth, meaning, and author by reading texts against themselves. Deconstruction analyzes texts to undo hierarchical oppositions and subordinations rather than destroying texts.

1. Name: Baraiya Bhavna P.
Roll No: 3
Sem: 2
Year: 2012-13

2.  “Post” structural because…
The structure of language reveals its own
dismantling,
Not a “universal” structure to reality

3. -A strategy-
-A method-
A way of reading texts that reveals the
slippery and elusive nature of “truth”
“meaning” and “author”.

4.  An opposition of metaphysical concepts
e.g.
speech/writing
presence/absence
its never the face-to-face of two terms, but
hierarchy and an order of subordination.

5. Deconstructing the text…
 ‘Reading the text against itself’
 ‘knowing the text as it can not know itself’
(Terry Eagleton)

6.  Deconstruction is not synonymous with
‘destruction’.
It is in fact much closer to the original meaning
of the word ‘analysis’, which etymologically
means ‘to undo’…