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Deconstruction is a concept central to postmodernism. Deconstruction is a process of rigorously analyzing and making apparent the assumptions, judgments and values that underlie social arrangements and intellectual ideas. Debates surrounding ontology, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, hermeneutics, and philosophy of language refer to Jacques Derrida's observations. Jacques Derrida developed a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction.
In Continental philosophy, deconstruction is now paired with analytic philosophy and is particularly strong within the English-speaking world. Jacques Derrida's work was labeled post-structuralism and is also associated with postmodern philosophy. Derrida's theories on deconstruction were influenced by the work of linguists such as Ferdinand de Saussure and literary theorists such as Roland Barthes.
Narrative after
deconstruction: structure and the negative poetics of William Burroughs's 'Cities of the
Red Night.' Style, Spring, 1995 by Daniel Punday.
William Burroughs's recent writing poses problems for critics. Traditionally Burroughs is
known for a negative poetics that assaults the word and all continuity for the sake of
breaking down social controls. Burroughs and other writers can be seen as working through
the deconstructive impulse that dominated writing of the 1970s and searching for some way
of reintroducing narrative structure without rejecting that deconstruction wholesale.
Realism, Deconstruction and the Feminist Standpoint - Caroline New. Feminist Standpoint Theory claims that by virtue of their social positioning women have access to, or can achieve, particular and/or better knowledge of gendered social relations.
Something Old, Something New: Sociology and the Organisation of
Psychiatry
David Pilgrim, Anne Rogers.
Whilst sociology has taken a consistent interest in psychiatry, theoretical and
methodological approaches have varied. This paper summarises three versions of the
sociology of psychiatry. These are then contrasted with the more recent post-structuralist emphasis
on deconstruction.
Postmodern Deconstruction Of Newtonian Science: A Physical-to-social Transposition Of Causality, L. Frederick Zaman III, Neural Engineering Research & Development - Abstract: A postmodern 'deconstruction' of basic physical theory is made possible through a physico-social transposition of the Newtonian-based 'event causation' of physical bodies, whose inertia, accelerative force, and action-reaction become the 'agent causation' of social beings. This deconstruction is a counterfactual that perhaps can validate Steven Lukes' 'three faces of power' in the natural sciences.
CONTESTED BOUNDARIES AND EMERGING PLURALISM
T. K. Oommen.
The rise and fall, construction and deconstruction of different types of boundaries -
biological, psychological, geographical, cultural, social, political, economic - make up
the very story of human civilisation and of contemporary social transformation.
Deconstruction in a
'Thinking' Science: Theoretical Physicists at Work
Martina Merz, Karin Knorr Cetina.
To specify the work and accomplishments of
theoretical physicists we choose the notion of 'deconstruction'. Deconstruction involves
the expansion of a concrete object, such as an equation, into a series of other objects
upon which the 'hardness' of a problem can be shifted and distributed. In solving an
equation, however, the determinate path of a deconstruction method needs to be
supplemented by the exploration of clues and guesses, trials and tricks. We trace a series
of devices, and iterations thereof, which physicists mobilize in dealing with hard
problems: formal deconstructions, detours and tricks to identify a working deconstruction,
variation, `doing examples', modelling and, finally, thought alliances between subjects.
Philosophy: Re-marking Deconstruction
Peter Davio.
Abstract: In this paper, I discuss the French philosopher Jacques Derrida and his practice
of deconstruction in relation to the age-old tradition of Western philosophy, and the
current practices of conceptual analysis. Though difficult and sometimes obscure, I argue
that Derrida's work is not irrational, nonsensical, or nihilistic. Through a close reading
of his essays and a critical examination of the logic of deconstruction, I suggest several
ways in which we can re-mark deconstruction as a philosophical practice.
Codes of Power. Deconstruction of institutional discourses
Abstract: The text introduces the semiology as method in the analysis of Sociology as area
of authoritarian social discourse. In opposition to an "empirical" description
where the "fact" is described as if it was not "social" but a fact
"of nature" the deconstruction of the Power discourse shows that the
"fact" is produced as definition or description, i.e, the Power-discourse works
as Code which through strict controls of human behaviour, thought and language
"produces" a particular form of "Reality."
Men in the Public Eye: The Construction and Deconstruction of Public Men and
Public Patriarchies. by Jeff Hearn - Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 23, No. 1
(Jan., 1994), pp. 104-105.