Jared's review
Derrida for Beginners (Writers and Readers Documentary Comic Book.) by James N. Powell (Goodreads author!)
Another great entry for this series. If you've ever heard the word/process/concept of "deconstruction" then you've been reading/listening to someone influenced by Derrida. He was a prolific writer so this introductory book focuses on his initial development of deconstruction and explains how deconstruction works. The gist of deconstruction is that no text is univocal and, thus, all texts are open to multiple interpretations. Deconstruction usually happens in the form of identifying and interpreting binary oppositions within the text. A binary opposition is something like male-female, mind-body, presence-absence, subject-object, etc. If you have any interest in doing or learning about textual criticism, this is a good place to start.
