5.0 Objectives
5.0 Objectives
5.1 The Problem of Defining Deconstruction
5.2 Background to Deconstruction
5.2.1 Derrida and Heidegger
Self-Check Questions for 5.2.1
5.2.2 Derrida and Ferdinand de Saussure
Self-Check Questions for 5.2.2
5.3 Difference
5.4 Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences
5.5 The Yale School of Deconstruction
5.6 The Influence of Deconstruction
5.8 Reading List
5.9 Glossary
To familiarize students with the key ideas associated with deconstruction and Derrida’s philosophy like difference, metaphysics of presence, logocentricism, phonocentricism, dissemination
To provide students with some starting points in approaching the complex and dense writings of Jacques Derrida
To familiarize students with the influence of Derrida’s ideas on other critical approaches.