Full Idea
Deconstruction, I have insisted, is not neutral. It intervenes.
Gist of Idea
Deconstruction is not neutral; it intervenes
Source
Jacques Derrida (Positions [1971], p.76)
Book Reference
Derrida,Jacques: 'Positions' [Continuum 2002], p.76
A Reaction
This, I think, is because there is in Derrida, as in most French philosophers, a strong streak of Marxism, and a desire to change the world, rather than merely understanding it. Idea 8213 shows the sort of thing he wants to change.
Related Idea
Idea 8213 I try to analyse certain verbal concepts which block and confuse the dialectical process [Derrida]