Dear Friends:
Following is an excerpt from Wikipedia's discussion of "deconstruction". I
post it because "Century of Light" mentions that: "Against the background
of this desolate landscape the intellectual vogue of the age, seeking to
make a virtue out of grim necessity, has adopted for itself the appellation
and mission of "deconstructionism". (Commissioned by The Universal House of
Justice, Century of Light, p. 131)
"It is easier to explain what deconstruction is not than what it is.
According to Derrida, deconstruction is not an analysis, nor a critique, a
method, an act, or an operation (Derrida, 1985, p. 3). Further,
deconstruction is not, properly speaking, a synonym for "destruction".
Rather, according to Barbara Johnson (1981), it is a specific kind of
analytical "reading":
" "Deconstruction is in fact much closer to the original meaning of
the word 'analysis' itself, which etymologically means "to undo" - a virtual
synonym for "to de-construct." ... If anything is destroyed in a
deconstructive reading, it is not the text, but the claim to unequivocal
domination of one mode of signifying over another. A deconstructive reading
is a reading which analyzes the specificity of a text's critical difference
from itself."
--From Wikipedia
If Wikipedia's definition is in any way accurate; I can understand why
some "intellectuals" would become somewhat sensitive to the slightest hint
of "anti-intellectualism"
Richard.
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