/lit/ - Literature

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I won't try to paraphrase it because the paper I have here ('Postmodernism, Derrida and Différance: A critique' by Brendan Sweetman) writes it quite clearly, but there are a number of critical problems facing deconstruction - the most valid for deconstruction as a tradition I think has to be the following in pic related: deconstruction confuses metaphysics with aesthetics. Even if you you deconstruct the idea of a table's existence, or deconstruct the patriarchy, that does not make it true in reality that the table doesn't exist or that patriarchy doesn't exist, it just makes it an aesthetically viable reading. The ultimate post-structuralist position would be to say that through this method, language can be related to all meanings, not that the contradictory meaning is the correct one.