What does any of this have to do with anti-intellectualism?
On 11/2/07, Richard H. Gravelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Friends:
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> 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)
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> "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":
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> " "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"
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> Richard.
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