Single Idea 8987

[catalogued under 1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 6. Deconstruction]

Full Idea

Deconstructive writing has a peculiar surface, in which technicalities float on the syntactic flood and vanish unexplained downstream.

Gist of Idea

On the surface of deconstructive writing, technicalities float and then drift away

Source

Roger Scruton (Upon Nothing: Swansea lecture [1993], p.2)

Book Reference

Scruton,Roger: 'Upon Nothing' [University of Swansea 1993], p.2


A Reaction

Not even the greatest fans of deconstruction can deny this, and Derrida more or less admits it. At first glance it certainly looks more like the ancient idea of rhetoric than it looks anything like dialectic.