Quotes about Deconstruction

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But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event o — Jacques Derrida, Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles/Eperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche
And still the text will remain, if it is really cryptic and parodying (and I tell you that it is so through and through. — Jacques Derrida, Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles/Eperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche
A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rul — Jacques Derrida, Dissemination
Every sign, linguistic or nonlinguistic, spoken or written (in the usual sense of this opposition), as a small or large — Jacques Derrida, Margins of Philosophy
Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but rather to the turns — Jacques Derrida
It goes without saying that these effects do not suffice to annul the necessity for a “change of terrain.” It also goes — Jacques Derrida, Margins of Philosophy
Let us being again. To take some examples: why should “literature” still designate that which already breaks away from l — Jacques Derrida, Dissemination
For the same reason there is nowhere to begin to trace the sheaf or the graphics of differance. For what is put into que — Jacques Derrida, Margins of Philosophy
Still less, despite appearances, will it have been a collection of three “essays” whose itinerary it would be time, afte — Jacques Derrida, Dissemination
In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do n — Charles Simic, The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs
I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe. — Jacques Derrida, Jacques Derrida
humanity suffers terribly from the demons it has created over lengths of time. we learn from nothing that we do. we crea — Jeffrey Fischer
Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an ‘eternal charm’, even though the social condition — Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction
An insipid voice message or an incongruent emergence from the “other” world may disrupt our whole thinking system. If we — Erik Pevernagie
Certain American uses of deconstruction, Derrida has observed, work to ensure ‘an institutional closure’ which serves th — Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction
Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the blue, i — Erik Pevernagie
That America is an exceptional nation is unclear only to one who has not been taught its true history. It ceases to be e — Ron Brackin
To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children. — Perry Nodelman
To be born into, to go to school, to study, to learn, to play, to worship, to love, to work and to die in segregation an — Robin DiAngelo
So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people a — John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings