Sem 2
Video Resources for Flipped Learning
Video 1: Defining Deconstruction
In this video, the learners will learn:
Why is it difficult to define Deconstruction?
Is Deconstruction a negative term?
How does Deconstruction happen on its own?
Video 2: Heideggar and Derrida
In this video, the learners will learn about:
the influence of Heideggar on Derrida
Derridian rethinking of the foundations of Western philosophy
Video 3: Saussurean and Derrida
In this video, the learners learn about:
Ferdinand de Saussureian concept of language (that meaning is arbitrary, relational, constitutive)
How Derrida deconstructs the idea of arbitrariness?
Concept of metaphysics of presence
Video 4: DifferAnce
In this video, the learners learn about:
Derridian concept of DifferAnce
Infinite play of meaning
DIfferAnce = to differ + to defer
Video 5: Structure, Sign and Play
In this video, the learners learn about:
Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences
"Language bears within itself the necessity of its own critique."
Video 6: Yale School
In this video, the learners learn about:
The Yale School: the hub of the practitioners of Deconstruction in the literary theories
The characteristics of the Yale School of Deconstruction
Video 7: Other Schools and Deconstruction
In this video, the learners learn about:
How other schools like New Historicism, Cultural Materialism, Feminism, Marxism and Postcolonial theorists used Deconstruction?
Video 8: Prof. Paul Fry on Derrida and the origins of Deconstruction-1
In this lecture on Derrida and the origins of deconstruction, Professor Paul Fry explores two central Derridian works: "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences" and "Différance." Derrida's critique of structuralism and semiotics, particularly the work of Levi-Strauss and Saussure, is articulated. Deconstruction's central assertions that language is by nature arbitrary and that meaning is indeterminate are examined. Key concepts, such as the nature of the text, discourse, différance, and supplementarity are explored.
00:00 - Chapter 1. Origins and Influence of Jacques Derrida
06:33 - Chapter 2. Derrida's Style
09:25 - Chapter 3. The Eiffel Tower and Wallace Stevens' "Anecdote of the Jar"
17:00 - Chapter 4. Levi-Strauss and the Oedipus Myth
22:39 - Chapter 5. Derrida and Semiotic Science
28:13 - Chapter 6. "Event" and History
33:42 - Chapter 7. Language and Writing
42:34 - Chapter 8. Language, Supplementarity, and Différance
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses
Video 9: Prof. Paul Fry concludes his consideration of Derrida-2
In this second lecture on deconstruction, Professor Paul Fry concludes his consideration of Derrida and begins to explore the work of Paul de Man. Derrida's affinity for and departure from Levi-Strauss's distinction between nature and culture are outlined. De Man's relationship with Derrida, their similarities and differences--particularly de Man's insistence on "self-deconstruction" and his reliance on Jakobson--are discussed. The difference between rhetoric and grammar, particularly the rhetoricization of grammar and the grammaticization of rhetoric, is elucidated through de Man's own examples taken from "All in the Family," Yeats' "Among School Children," and the novels of Proust.
00:00 - Chapter 1. Derrida and Levi-Strauss
10:37 - Chapter 2. Writing and Speech
16:06 - Chapter 3. Paul de Man and Nazism
24:37 - Chapter 4. Similarities Between De Man and Derrida
33:35 - Chapter 5. De Man and Derrida: Differences
39:24 - Chapter 6. Examples: "All in the Family," Yeats, and Proust
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses
Video 10: An Introduction to Poststructuralism (Derrida) - 1
This is the first entry in an introduction to Poststructuralism. Focusing especially on the concept of communication and its constituent metaphors, this video (in 3 parts) is designed to introduce students and others to some aspects of continental critical theory, especially those that tend to appear in graduate and undergraduate curricula in the humanities.
Video 11: An Introduction to Poststructuralism (Derrida) - 2
This is the first entry in an introduction to Poststructuralism. Focusing especially on the concept of communication and its constituent metaphors, this video (in 3 parts) is designed to introduce students and others to some aspects of continental critical theory, especially those that tend to appear in graduate and undergraduate curricula in the humanities.
Video 12: An Introduction to Poststructuralism (Derrida) – 3
Video 13: Defining Deconstruction in Brief
Brief lecture on deconstruction or post-structuralist theory
Video 14: A short animated introduction to Poststructuralism
This video focusing on the concept of the signifying chain. Script and storyboard by Christopher Bolton (Williams College). Animation by Galen Corey (Williams '14).
Video 15: Derrida in 1 Minute
Introduces the ideas of philosopher Jacques Derrida in one minute flat. Written and created by Mark Fullmer, M.A., English, Boston College.
Reading Resources
Additional Reading Resources
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Culler, Jonathan (1975) Structuralist Poetics.
Culler, Jonathan (1983) On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism.
Derrida Online http://www.iep.utm.edu/derrida/
Derrida, Jacques, Letter to a Japanese Friend
Ferdinand de Saussure Course in General Linguistics:
http://faculty.smu.edu/dfoster/cf3324/Saussure.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_de_Man
http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/simulate/derrida_deconstruction.html
Lawlor, Leonard, "Jacques Derrida", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL= http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2011/entries/derrida/>.
Wheeler, Michael, "Martin Heidegger", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2011/entries/heidegger/>.
Wikipedia Entries on Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida
Norris, Christopher (1982) Deconstruction: Theory and Practice
Video 1: Defining Deconstruction
Video 2: Heideggar and Derrida
Video 3: Saussurean and Derrida
Video 4: DifferAnce
Video 5: Structure, Sign and Play
Video 6: Yale School
Video 7: Other Schools and Deconstruction
Video 8: Prof. Paul Fry on Derrida and the origins of Deconstruction-1
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Video 9: Prof. Paul Fry concludes his consideration of Derrida-2
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Video 10: An Introduction - 1
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Video 11: An Introduction - 2
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Video 12: An Introduction - 3
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Video 13: Defining Deconstruction in Brief
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Video 14: A Short animated introduction of Poststructuralism
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Video 15: Derrida in 1 Minute
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Blog on Derrida and Deconstruction — Deconstruction, as applied in the criticism of literature, designates a theory and practice of reading which questions and claims to "subvert" or "undermine" the assumption that the system of language provides grounds that are adequate to establish the boundaries, the coherence or unity, and the determinate meanings of a literary text
Deconstructing Derrida: Review of "Structure, Sign and Discourse in the Human Sciences" — The first impulse a reader is likely to have upon starting to read chapter 10 is to close the book in dismay and disgust. The sentences appear to become increasingly entangled, to lead nowhere, and ultimately to add up to nothing. However, Derrida’s spectacular success in the academic world requires an explanation.
Jacques Derrida, “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” Alan Bass, tr. Writing and Difference (1966), pp. 278-95 — Derrida begins his essay by noting that structures have always informed Western thinking but have not been paid sufficient attention due to the very nature of the structure themselves: because they are essential to the very process of thought, they have been viewed as natural and inevitable and therefore more or less unquestionable.
Summary - Structure, Sign and Play — Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences (French: La structure, le signe et le jeu dans le discours des sciences humaines) was a lecture presented at Johns Hopkins University on 21 October 1966 by philosopher Jacques Derrida. The lecture was then published in 1967 as a chapter of Writing and Difference (French: L'écriture et la différence).