Certain Quote by Jacques Derrida

I tried for the longest time to find out what deconstructionism was. Nobody was able to explain it to me clearly. The best answer…

— Margaret Atwood

“the great philosopher of deconstruction: in”

— Sarah Bakewell

There is no rigorous and effective deconstruction without the faithful memory of philosophies and literatures, without the respectful and competent reading of texts of…

— Jacques Derrida

“To deconstruct a concept is to analyze it in a way which reveals its construction—both in the temporal sense of its birth and development…

— Robert Jensen

What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical,…

— Harold Bloom

I would say that deconstruction is affirmation rather than questioning, in a sense which is not positive: I would distinguish between the positive, or…

— Jacques Derrida

Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.

— Eric Hoffer

Deconstruction is not meant to be a soft sighing for the future, but a way of deciding now and being impassioned in a moment.

— John D. Caputo

Marxism must abhor nothing so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed in its current form. It is at its best when butting…

— Rosa Luxemburg

Deconstruction is great for the intellect, but it hurts the heart terribly.

— Eric Maisel

“The difficulties connected with my criterion of demarcation (D) are important, but must not be exaggerated. It is vague, since it is a methodological…

— Karl Popper

One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and is, used…

— Claud Cockburn