Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 12:33:13 -0700
Sender: pen-l@ecst.csuchico.edu
From: "Alan G. Isaac" <AISAAC@american.edu>
Subject: Re: PoMo in the 90'ies
 
On Thu, May 5  1994 18:08:00 -0700 Steve Cullenberg said:
>Deconstruction is a way of reading texts (written and otherwise) which in
>part seeks to find binary oppositions and show how they are structured
>hierarchically, and then to explode this hierarchy (a method of reading, as
>Antonio Callari pointed out, not far from Marx's injunction to criticize
>everything).  Or take Derrida's concept of "differance."  Derrida uses this
>concept to deconstruct Western philosphy with its logocentrism in which
>methaphysical notions of center, origin, and essence are determined in
>relation to an ontological center, which represses absence and difference
>for the sake metaphysical stability (and dominance).  Perhaps there is not
>a proactive, detailed agenda here, but in the battle of "how to think", and
>what is accepted as "good arguemnt", I think the political import of this
>"critique" should be clear, no?
 
Asolutely. Now we can dispense with such unfounded, euro-centric,
hierarchical notions as justice and (substantive) equality...
 --Alan G. Isaac