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In philosophy, deconstruction is a loosely-defined set of approaches to understanding the relationship between text and meaning.The concept of deconstruction was introduced by the philosopher Jacques Derrida, who described it as a turn away from Platonism's ideas of "true" forms and essences which are valued above appearances.
Both Derrida and Eisenman, as well as Daniel Libeskind [8] were concerned with the "metaphysics of presence", and this is the main subject of deconstructivist philosophy in architecture theory. The presupposition is that architecture is a language capable of communicating meaning and of receiving treatments by methods of linguistic philosophy. [9]
In the essay "In the Absence of the Face", Dabashi uses deconstructive methods in his investigation of the Judeo-Islamic heritage. [21] Samuel R. Delany: Delany is an American science fiction author, widely known in the academic world as a literary critic. His essays and novels have been influenced by deconstruction. [22]
Jacques Derrida (/ ˈ d ɛr ɪ d ə /; French: [ʒak dɛʁida]; born Jackie Élie Derrida; [6] 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was a French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in a number of his texts, and which was developed through close readings of the linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology.
One of the many difficulties of expressing Jacques Derrida's project (deconstruction) in simple terms is the enormous scale of it.Just to understand the context of Derrida's theory, one needs to be acquainted intimately with philosophers such as Socrates–Plato–Aristotle, René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Charles Sanders Peirce, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx ...
Two of his later essays on art were on the artwork of artist Bracha L. Ettinger: Anima Minima (Diffracted Traces), 1995, [30] and Anamnesis (L'anamnese), 1997. [ 31 ] Lyotard repeatedly returned to the notion of the Postmodern in essays gathered in English as The Postmodern Explained to Children , Toward the Postmodern , and Postmodern Fables .
Reconstructivism is a philosophical theory holding that societies should continually reform themselves in order to establish better governments or social networks. [1] This theory involves recombining or recontextualizing the ideas arrived at by the philosophy of deconstruction, in which an existing system or medium is broken into its smallest meaningful elements [clarification needed] and in ...
The essays seek to understand and explain the relatively new movement of nonrepresentational art and defend these pioneering artists attempting to escape from the embraced realism and romanticism movements. [1] The dehumanization of art refers to the removal of human elements from these works, eliminating the content, but keeping the form.