DECONSTRUCTIONIST

Deconstruction is a philosophy form of philosophical and literary analysis which is derived from Jacque Derrida's word of Grammatology.

It suggests that all western literature and philosophy implicitly relies on a 'Metaphysics of presence' where intristic meaning is accessible by virtue of pure presence.

"Deconstruction denies the possibility of a "pure presence". It thus denies the possibility of essential or intrinsic and stable meaning and the unmediated access to "reality". Derrida points that "from the moment that there is meaning there are nothing but signs. We think only in signs". Language, considered as a system of signs, as Ferdinand de Saussure says, is nothing but differences. contends that "words have meaning only because of contrast-effects with other words...no word can acquire meaning in the way in which philosophers from Aristotle to Bertrand Russell have hoped it might—by being the unmediated expression of something non-linguistic. Any given concept is thus constituted in reciprocal determination, in terms of its oppositions, e.g. perception/reason, speech/writing, mind/body, interior/exterior, marginal/central, sensible/intelligible, intuition/signification, nature/culture, etc. Derrida terms 'logocentrism' the philosophical commitment to pure, unmediated, presence as a source of self-sufficient meaning."