/lit/ - Literature

Do you think Derrida was ever a chill guy at home, who could just crack open a beer and be cool, maybe tell a joke or two, or was he just always in super serious "I am le great philosopher, fear me" mode all the time?

How does /lit/ feel about Jacques Derrida?

I was really interested in deconstruction and language philosophy, but upon reading his stuff, I found it was way 2deep4me.

Don't even try to look outside the text. It's all in there, just look harder.

I can't pretend to understand the intricacies of Deconstruction as a method, but I think I have a grasp of the general notion. What I would be most grateful for is examples of the method in practice.

Would you kindly point me to critiques (videos, essays, etc.) that reasonably demonstrate deconstruction in action by critics besides D?

>>3753091

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>>3707841

This reminds me of an encounter I had with word nigger

>be in asian country
>room full of international students, joking and drinking
>had been playing murder so we were all sat in a circle
>start talking about murder mystery novels
>agatha christe
>ohgodwhyamibritish.jpg
>novel called 10 little indian boys
>finish friend remarks that in Finnish it literally translates as 10 little niggers
>from across the room a black american girl shouts 'you can't say that'
>friend re-calmly explains that is the name of the book in literal translation
>"you can't say that word"
>everyone went quite
>he explain again, talking about author, this is the original name of the book, not changed to 'indians' in Finnish
>"you cannot say that word"
>room split in two

Almost ruined the entire evening. Anyway sorry for the shitty greentext but this incident always struck me as how she just didn't even acknowledge the word, or even allow anyone else to say it, even with the most honest and valid intentions.

What do you guys think of deconstruction? I took my first class in it today and it not what I expected.

>First day of Literary Theory class I'm forced to take. "Oh great," I think. "Time to put up with pretentious bullshit."
>The professor walked into the room, looked smugly around. "After this course, after you've learned about deconstruction, you will see that there is no meaning, no truth."
>I laughed. "No truth? Yea, right."
>The professor glared at me. "Oh? What's this? A simple young undergraduate who still believes in truth?"
>He walked over and leaned down on the desk, putting his face right into mine. Then he said, behind his menacingly bad breath, "There is no truth."
>"Y-yes there is," I said, suddenly timid. "It- it's illogical to say otherwise."
>"Logic? Logic is just a social creation, just like morality. Just as morality changes from culture to culture, so does truth and so does logic."
>I was silent. Was it true? Was everything I believed just a social construct. Was that really true?
>The professor snorted, smugly. "I see you have no answer. I know it was probably comforting, in your tiny little world, to believe in logic and truth, but here in academia we believe otherwise. We believe in deconstruction. We believe there is no truth."

What do you guys think of deconstruction? I took my first class in it today and it not what I expected.

>First day of Literary Theory class I'm forced to take. "Oh great," I think. "Time to put up with pretentious bullshit."
>The professor walked into the room, looked smugly around. "After this course, after you've learned about deconstruction, you will see that there is no meaning, no truth."
>I laughed. "No truth? Yea, right."
>The professor glared at me. "Oh? What's this? A simple young undergraduate who still believes in truth?"
>He walked over and leaned down on the desk, putting his face right into mine. Then he said, behind his menacingly bad breath, "There is no truth."
>"Y-yes there is," I said, suddenly timid. "It- it's illogical to say otherwise."
"Logic? Logic is just a social creation, just like morality. Just as morality changes from culture to culture, so does truth and so does logic."
>I was silent. Was it true? Was everything I believed just a social construct. Was that really true?
>The professor snorted, smugly. "I see you have no answer. I know it was probably comforting, in your tiny little world, to believe in logic and truth, but here in academia we believe otherwise. We believe in deconstruction. We believe there is no truth."

>>3184797

Get the fuck out of here Habermas

How does one go about acquiring a wide overview of 'continental' philosophy? The analytic style bores me; feels too cold and sterile.