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| 8216 | Deconstruction is not neutral; it intervenes |
| Full Idea: Deconstruction, I have insisted, is not neutral. It intervenes. | |||
| From: Jacques Derrida (Positions [1971], 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. |
| 8213 | I try to analyse certain verbal concepts which block and confuse the dialectical process |
| Full Idea: I have tried to analyse certain marks in writing which are undecidables, false verbal properties, which inhabit philosophical opposition, resisting and disorganising it, without ever constituting a third term, withour ever leaving room for a solution. | |||
| From: Jacques Derrida (Positions [1971], p.40) | |||
| A reaction: [I have simplified his sentence!] Much of Derrida seems to be a commentary on the Hegelian dialectic, and the project is presumably to figure out why philosophy is not advancing in the way we would like. Interesting... |