Lane's review
Of Grammatology
by Jacques Derrida
Lane's review
Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida
Lane's review
rating:
bookshelves:
post-modernism--pro-and-con
yes, i have read this insufferable text. granted, i could deconstruct it and give it five stars as a brilliant coming-of-age story, but i won't resort to such petty criticism (that is, of course, if you consider inconsistency and contradiction petty, which i take most deconstructionists would indeed consider)
truthfully, Derrida was not an idiot. his programme is insightful and it does attend to real concerns in literary analysis. the problem with deconstructionism is found in it's willingness to engage in false dichotomies, question-begging, and all manner of self-sealing arguments. fallacies aside (of which there are too many to count), Derrida is simply all too willing to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
i should probably explain that in more detail, but i could ramble for hundreds of pages about how much i despise the gratuitous irrationality of deconstructionism. send me an e-mail if you want more detail.
truthfully, Derrida was not an idiot. his programme is insightful and it does attend to real concerns in literary analysis. the problem with deconstructionism is found in it's willingness to engage in false dichotomies, question-begging, and all manner of self-sealing arguments. fallacies aside (of which there are too many to count), Derrida is simply all too willing to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
i should probably explain that in more detail, but i could ramble for hundreds of pages about how much i despise the gratuitous irrationality of deconstructionism. send me an e-mail if you want more detail.
