Jacques Derrida

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's tenor represents a dangerous proclivity towards the bombastic translations of problems of being and knowledge into strident moral dilemmas.

a thinker whose tenor representats a dangerous proclivity towards the bombastic translations of problems of being and knowledge into strident moral dilemmas.

is exclusively and frivolously preoccupied with the signifier.

Slavoj Zizek has adapted Lacan’s account to produce a more directly political analysis of the relation between human beings and society. Zizek, who is one of the most energetic heirs of Lacanian theory, himself rejects the label ‘poststructuralist’ (energetically), since he associates it with Derrida and what he sees as an exclusive and probably frivolous preoccupation with the signifier.

is no relativist. The point of his work is to shake up the deepest assumptions of Western thought, opening it to what other modes of being and thinking, if any, might be conceived beside it.

Both thinkers take received modes of philosophizing and thought to their limits, not to affirm a blandly fashionable relativism, but to shake up the deepest assumptions of Western thought, opening it to what other modes of being and thinking, if any, might be conceived beside it.

proceeds by giving attention to apparently trivial or marginal elements in a text – something in a footnote or some casual example – in order to show up the continual instability of dominant ways of reading.

Derrida’s gives attention to apparently trivial or marginal elements in a text – something in a footnote or some casual example – in order to show up the continual instability of dominant ways of reading: The norms of minimal intelligibility are not absolute and ahistorical, but merely more stable than others. They depend upon socio-institutional conditions, hence upon non-natural relations of power that by essence are mobile and founded upon complex conventional structures that in principle may be analyzed, deconstructed, and transformed; and, in fact, these structures are in the process of transforming themselves profoundly and, above all, very rapidly . . . ‘deconstruction’ is firstly this destabilization on the move. (Derrida 1988: 147)

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Jacques Derrida