jacques derrida

Quite on the contrary , deconstruction attempts to reveal the necessary incompleteness or deficiency of the text or the parts omitted or lacking in the text in to show that these are the ways things are

REACTION TO DECONSTRUCTION

If someone claims that Derrida 's deconstruction is a radical approach in critiquing texts - texts that are not confined to the written books alone - then there is something about his methodology that strikes the conservative mind . It appears that , at least for Derrida , gone are the days of contextualizing a work with another

work in to arrive at a definitive understanding or at least a partial comprehension of the insufficiencies of a text . The primary concern of the reader , hence , is already the text itself in locating and isolating these necessary insufficiencies

It appears that deconstruction grants every text the capability of standing as its own , being the sole measure for its own critiquing . And since anything can be a text , it gives us the idea that everything else is a measure for their respective meanings . The world , or the of the world , becomes an independent framework in revealing unto itself its necessary incompleteness

In to perform a deconstruction of a text , two essential elements are required the reader and the text . What , then , becomes of the author of the text ? Since everything can be a text , there is this idea that the author is likewise a text - which leads us into the presumption that while every text can independently be a measure of its own in deconstruction , a text can also create another text at least in the sense of human authors writing a literary piece of work (Felperin , 1985 br

. 254 . If the author is a text , the reader can also be a text which leads one to the seemingly...