Affirmation Quote by Jacques Derrida

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

All sentences of the type 'deconstruction is X' or 'deconstruction is not X', a priori miss the point, which is to say that they…

— Jacques Derrida

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

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

— Eric Maisel

That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been given…

— Jacques Derrida

“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

“she does with much asperity: "Dear Ms X, I acknowledge your letter concerning your proposed thesis, though I can't say its title makes a…

— Margaret Atwood

“Now, can we please abandon such weighty conversation? I have become thoroughly exhausted with thoughts of fate, destiny, justice, and other, equally gloomy topics…

— Christopher Paolini

It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain an inclination to criticize must also…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

In the 1970s colleges were under the reign of a very odd form of literary theory called deconstruction or post-structuralism.

— Heather Mac Donald