That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
I would say that deconstruction is affirmation rather than questioning, in a sense which is not positive: I would distinguish between the… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
All sentences of the type 'deconstruction is X' or 'deconstruction is not X', a priori miss the point, which is to say… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“And still the text will remain, if it is really cryptic and parodying (and I tell you that it is so through… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
There is no rigorous and effective deconstruction without the faithful memory of philosophies and literatures, without the respectful and competent reading of… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“Still less, despite appearances, will it have been a collection of three “essays” whose itinerary it would be time, after the fact,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but rather… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“For the same reason there is nowhere to begin to trace the sheaf or the graphics of differance. For what is put… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“Let us being again. To take some examples: why should “literature” still designate that which already breaks away from literature—away from what… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that these effects do not suffice to annul the necessity for a “change of terrain.” It also goes… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“Every sign, linguistic or nonlinguistic, spoken or written (in the usual sense of this opposition), as a small or large unity, can… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“Still less, despite appearances, will it have been a collection of three “essays” whose itinerary it would be time, after the fact, to recognize;… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share
The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language. — Jacques Derrida Copy Share
“... and in the homosexual phase which would follow Eurydice's death ... Orpheus sings no more, he writes.” — Jacques Derrida Copy Share
These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share
Each time this identity announces itself, someone or something cries: Look out for the trap, youre caught. Take off, get free, disengage yourself. — Jacques Derrida Copy Share
Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share
“Here again, the difference between the effective and the virtual, between mourning and its possibility, seems fragile and porous. The anguished apprehension of mourning… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share
“The wound can have (should only have) just one proper name. I recognize that I love — you — by this: you leave in… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share
Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture. — Jacques Derrida Copy Share
But can one not conceive of a presence, and of a presence to itself of the subject before speech or signs, a presence to… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share
“It goes without saying that these effects do not suffice to annul the necessity for a “change of terrain.” It also goes without saying… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share
In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share
During the fifteen or twenty years in which I tried - it was not always easy with publishers, newspapers, etc. - to forbid photographs,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share
