Deconstruction Quotes

In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-cl...

Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but...

Let us being again. To take some examples: why should “literature” still designate that which alread...

Still less, despite appearances, will it have been a collection of three “essays” whose itinerary it...

A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its com...

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

It goes without saying that these effects do not suffice to annul the necessity for a “change of ter...

Every sign, linguistic or nonlinguistic, spoken or written (in the usual sense of this opposition), ...

For the same reason there is nowhere to begin to trace the sheaf or the graphics of differance. For ...

But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and your...

And still the text will remain, if it is really cryptic and parodying (and I tell you that it is so ...

Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an ‘eternal charm’, even though ...

Derrida… labels as ‘metaphysical’ any such thought system which depends on an unassailable foundatio...

Certain American uses of deconstruction, Derrida has observed, work to ensure ‘an institutional clos...