Quote by Margaret Atwood

“the great philosopher of deconstruction: in”

— Sarah Bakewell

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

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

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

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

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

“She felt really quite unequal to the tedious process of reconciliation which, in view of the fact that she was sorry, seemed to her…

— Mary McCarthy

“Deep resentment and passive dislike due to erroneous ideas are unsettling.”

— Amitav Chowdhury

If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in the pursuit…

— Samuel Johnson

Some have said that the thesis [of indeterminacy] is a consequence of my behaviorism. Some have said that it is a reductio ad absurdum…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.

— Joyce Maynard