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Title: Jacques Derrida


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Jacques Derrida
Grenz, S. J. (1996). A Primer on postmodernism.
Grand Rapids, MI Eerdmans
Powel, J. (1997). Derrida for beginners. New
York Writers and Readers.
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Language vs. Speech
  • Language does not have a constant meaning
    connected to a fixed reality
  • Speech has a connection to reality that writing
    does not have
  • Derrida deconstructs both

3
Logocentrism
  • The assumption that something lies beyond our
    system of linguistic signs to which a written
    work can refer to substantiate its claim to be an
    authentic statement.

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Rejection of Logocentrism
  • Rejects written language as the carrier of
    meaning
  • Do we trust speech or written language more?
  • There is no transcendental basis for anchoring
    our language.
  • There is no meaning outside the text.
  • One can never reach the interpretation of a
    text
  • One reading of a text is a preface to the next.

5
Transcendental Signified
  • Sign word ex. Cow
  • Signifier the sound cow
  • Signified the idea to which the word refers
  • Referent the thing itself.
  • Transcendental Signified the meaning beyond the
    universe that give meaning to everything else.

Powel, J. (1997). Derrida for beginners. New
York Writers and Readers.
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Reason Deconstructs Reason
  • We must question reason with reason.
  • We must use reason to deconstruct reason.

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Deconstruction
  • Decentering
  • The use of certain philosophical assumptions to
    launch an assault on logocentrism.
  • Movement betweenbinary opposites
  • Free play betweenvarious readings

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Derridas Primary Goal
  • To divest us of the logocentrism
  • By showing the impossibility of drawing a clear
    line between reality and our linguistic
    representations.
  • He wants to wean us from assuming that we can
    discover the meaning inherent in a text.

9
Christianity and Logocentrism
  • There is meaning in the text that corresponds to
    a reality outside the text
  • While any one persons interpretation of the text
    is flawed
  • There are several checks on the interpretation of
    a text
  • Texts are best understood inside an
    interpretational community

10
Christian Checks on Interpretation
  • No individual interpretations
  • Consistent with context
  • Consistent with the rest of Scripture
  • Consistent with the way one can live
  • Consistent with the real world.
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