Derrida
Grammatology's French author
Derrida refers to Jacques Derrida (1930–2004), the French philosopher who developed deconstruction—an approach to reading texts that questions stable meanings and exposes internal contradictions.
His name functions as shorthand for his ideas: Have you read any Derrida?
That's very Derrida suggests something is being analyzed for hidden assumptions or paradoxes.
Minute remnant or pursue
- supplementSomething added to complete
- disseminationWide distribution of information
- decenteringShifting away from self-focus
- playRecreation or staged drama
presence · absence · closure · destabilization · reading · writing · text · margins
Philosophy questioning stable meaning
- phenomenologyStudy of subjective experience
- HeideggerExistential ontology's founder
- NietzscheGerman philosopher of will
- HegelGerman absolute idealist philosopher
metaphysics · ontology · epistemology · ethics · aesthetics · Frankfurt · postmodernism · anti-foundationalism
Meaning-bearing form
- signifiedExpressed meaning symbolically
- structuralismAnalysis through underlying systems
- semiologyTheory of sign systems
- linguisticsScience of language structure
meaning · representation · discourse · text · writing · speech · syntax · semantics
trace
Minute remnant or pursue
- supplementSomething added to complete
- disseminationWide distribution of information
- decenteringShifting away from self-focus
play · presence · absence · closure · destabilization · reading · writing · text · margins · spacing
poststructuralism
Philosophy questioning stable meaning
- phenomenologyStudy of subjective experience
- HeideggerExistential ontology's founder
- NietzscheGerman philosopher of will
Hegel · metaphysics · ontology · epistemology · ethics · aesthetics · Frankfurt · postmodernism · anti-foundationalism · critique
signifier
Meaning-bearing form
- signifiedExpressed meaning symbolically
- structuralismAnalysis through underlying systems
- semiologyTheory of sign systems
linguistics · meaning · representation · discourse · text · writing · speech · syntax · semantics · arbitrariness
Rogues
Mischievous or dishonest characters
DerridaAristotle
Greek founder of formal logic
Descartes · Kant · Frege · Russell · metaphysician
Derridaessentialist
Believer in fixed natures
Plato · traditionalist · literalist · originalist · traditional
deconstruction, deconstructed, deconstructs, deconstructive, deconstructivism