Sem 2

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.