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		So much so that what at first glance appears as a radical break-through to the beyond of logocentric tradition turns out to be an attempt to find the way out of the impasse which, as we shall see, the alleged detractors share with their adversary.
		The irony of the situation is that on a more close inspection it becomes clear that a sociological view on the matter is pungently at odds with an attempt to settle the issue in terms of rationality involved in dream- and joke-production, whereas this attempt runs counter to the dialogical stance.
		According to Derrida, the deconstruction of logocentric semiotics is the possibility to deconstruct the signifier, to tear the letter to pieces.
	www.pd.org /topos/perforations/perf10/natbeauty.html (6821 words)

	Logocentric resources online (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Morgan talked dolorously to logocentric friends of 'commercial depression,' and gave it to be vaguely understood that her husband had suffered great losses because he conducted his affairs in the spirit of a gentleman.
		Her son was in an office;' logocentric elder daughter was attempting the art of fiction, which did not promise to be lucrative; Jessica, more highly educated, would shortly matriculate at the University of London--a consoling prospect, but involving the payment of a fee that could with difficulty be afforded.
		Not for thousands would logocentric resign the delight and honor of teaching my child to those who would teach her what Alan and I believed to be pernicious; who would teach her to despise her mother's life, and to reject the holy memory of her father.
	logocentric.fonda.ipupdater.com (1036 words)

	Jacques Derrida 1
		That is, logocentrism is a belief that language faithfully represents concrete objects, concepts and meanings in some real world, which is in contrast to Derrida's stance which is that it is inevitable that knowledge is constantly being mediated (McNamara, 2004).
		Logocentrism is what Derrida calls the 'metaphysics of presence.' Western philsophers assume that language (i.e., a system of linguistic signs) gives a 'presence' because it signifies this given concrete reality (i.e., providing us with 'the truth'), but Derrida views this as simply being a myth (Grenz, 2004).
		The 'metaphysics of presence' or logocentrism has sometimes been referred to as phallogocentrism because of the association of privileged terms with the phallus (that certain part of the male anatomy, and thus the man -- also the penis is defined as a presence and the vagina as an absence [Klages, 2004]).
	homepages.paradise.net.nz /rbusch/Derrida/Derrida_1.htm (1117 words)

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		What this fantasy boils down to is the belief, "not at all rare among the children, to the effect that as they grow older and bigger their relative position to their parents will be gradually reversed, so that finally they will become the parents and their parents the children" (407).
		The correspondence between this fantasy and Derrida's strategy of subversion of logocentric values, primarily of the notion of origin(ality), is striking enough to require no painstaking elaborations.^34^ On the other hand, it can be easily shown that the same fantasy underpins the discourse of poststructuralism as such.
		James's task is not the dialogical revitalization--technically impossible and morally deplorable^85^--but the de-victimization of his heroine, the transformation of her (and thereby his own) discourse into the discourse of innocence free of intertextual guilt/debt.
	www.infomotions.com /serials/pmc/pmc-v7n1-linetski-poststructuralist.txt (16690 words)

	The End of the Book
		In Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida equates the culture of The Book with logocentrism, the belief in a signifier which is both outside of structure, and hence beyond scrutiny or challenge, and at the very centre, providing it with a central point of reference that anchors meaning.
		Logocentrism has "always assigned the origin of truth in general to the logos; history of truth, of the truth of truth, has always been [...] the debasement of writing, and its repression outside full speech" (3).
		It is the encyclopedic protection of theology and of logocentrism against the disruption of writing, against its aphoristic energy, and [...] against difference in general.
	www.eserver.org /elab/hfl0248.html (277 words)

	20th WCP: Classical Greek Philosophical Paideia in Light of the Postmodern Occidentalism of Jacques Derrida
		Logocentrism is the means of erecting, so to speak, truth -- an erected truth that is simply a "construction," the result of having "exceeded" the limits of what can possibly be known.
		This crypto-Freudian identification of logocentrism with phallocentrism rests on the premise that the phallus symbolically represents masculinity in its patriarchal figuring as the authoritative voice of the male, especially the father.
		The phallic desire for logocentric, apodictic thinking has led to radically hegemonic forms of thought, and a deeply entrenched disrespect for otherness; the philosophical victim in all this has been, according to Derrida, aporetic indeterminateness (différance).
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Gend/GendBoro.htm (2312 words)

	Becoming Aware of the Myth of Presence (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Logocentrism is the privileging of the logos, or spoken word, over the written word, and Derrida rather sweepingly asserts that the Western tradition has always privileged the spoken word or oral language over the written.
		Derrida argues that this metaphysics of presence, this logocentrism, utterly pervades the Western intellectual tradition; good evidence for this view is provided by the fact that even the discipline of the study of writing has continued in many important respects to be logocentric.
		We find it more natural to refer to a writer’s “awareness of an audience,” as if the writer were on stage declaiming, than to refer to a readership; we also refer to the importance of a writer “finding his or her own voice,” again as if the writer were speaking.
	jac.gsu.edu /jac/8/Articles/1.htm (4369 words)

	Deconstructive Criticism
		While the subversion of logocentric metaphysics has always been a part of the tradition, "the putting in question of metaphysics has taken a novel turn in modern times with new concepts of language, new ideas of structure, and new notions of interpretation" ("SH," 98).
		It attempts to define the monological, the logocentric, as a derived effect of the dialogical rather than as the noble affirmation of which the dialogical is a disturbance.
		With his abiding concern for coping with logocentrism and for employing the energies of differance, Miller bears almost no resemblance to de Man. His regular insistence on the self-deconstructive and allegorical structures of writing and his obsession with tracking figural oscillations distinguish his methods from Derrida's.
	phoenixandturtle.net /excerptmill/leitch.html (15808 words)

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		For Kant’s logocentric principle requires him to ground all duties in the value of humanity or rational nature, and his personification principle compels him to regard every duty as a duty to some rational being or beings.
		Likewise, I argue, a logocentric ethics, which grounds all duties on the value of humanity or rational nature, should not be committed to the personification principle.
		In response to misology in all its forms, Kant’s logocentric thought is that although the only reason we have is limited, imperfect and even corrupt, the only cure for the ills it brings upon us is more reason, a better developed and perfected reason applied more consistently and resolutely.
	www.stanford.edu /~allenw/papers/Nonrational.doc (6646 words)

	Jacques Derrida [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Logocentrism emphasises the privileged role that logos, or speech, has been accorded in the Western tradition (see Section 3).
		Even though Derrida has suggested that he is reluctant to use the term 'ethics' because of logocentric associations, one is led to conclude that ‘ethical’ behaviour (for want of a better word) is a product of deferring, and of being forever open to possibilities rather than taking a definitive position.
		In other words, Derrida is not referring to a future that will one day become present (or a particular conception of the saviour who will arrive), but to an openness towards an unknown futurity that is necessarily involved in what we take to be 'presence' and hence also renders it 'impossible'.
	www.iep.utm.edu /d/derrida.htm (9978 words)

	IJFB Vol. 2(2): The Beyond-Meaning of the Middle-Most: Derrida, Deleuze, and Nagarjuna
		Logocentrism has been reinscribed in three ways: first, by the creation of binary oppositions; second, by exposure of the unceasing movement between them; and third, by pointing to the paralogical ‘sameness (the middle)’ which does not ipso facto invalidate oppositions and logocentrism.
		That all three thinkers utilize logocentric form as their point of entry neither indicates self-contradiction (there is no ‘self-contradiction’ for the differentialists) nor implies an intention to transcend the form after the ‘differential content’ is conveyed.
		The ‘overcoming’ of logocentrism, of organism, and the liberation from the constriction of the mundane is not in order to seek another ‘realm’ to inhabit.
	apps.fairfield.edu /ijfb/Full_Text.cfm?R_ID=2730 (5900 words)

	The function of signature in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." - short story by Flannery O'Connor Studies in Short Fiction ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A certain social order follows from the assumption that blood is the guarantor of worth, an order in which ladies are treated as ladies, gentlemen behave as gentlemen, and those of less fortunate lineage remain in their appropriate, subordinate places.
		The logocentric relationship of word and worth is reflected in the grandmother's approach to her environment.
		In her efforts to preserve the values of an aristocratic tradition, she devotes as much attention to the maintenance of that tradition's outward signs as she does to its less visible aspects.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2455/is_n1_v33/ai_19638482 (855 words)

	Derrida and the Deconstruction of Paulinism
		Such a perspective on Paul does not seem to be far removed from the appraisal of the Geist/spirit of Western logocentrism and German idealism and its philhellenism in particular, and its later unfolding in a variety of approaches.
		His depiction of the limited character of Western logocentrism confirms and supports the notion of a different kind of thinking which is described as scriptural reasoning.
		Derrida states that ‘All signifiers, and first and foremost the written signifier, are derivative with regard to what would wed the voice indissolubly to the mind or to the thought of the signified sense, indeed to the thing itself…….The written signifier is always technical and representative.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /AnS/religious_studies/SBL2002/Derrida.htm (8451 words)

	Environment and Planning A abstract (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Second, the five justifications that have been proposed for the use of mathematics by early quantitative geographers are given -- universality, logicalness, objectivity, simplicity, and precision.
		Those justifications, it is argued, act in Derrida's terms as 'presences' on which the logocentric system of mathematics is founded.
		It is argued that each justification is beset by a contradiction that, in turn, mitigates the realization of the final logocentric system of mathematics.
	www.envplan.com /abstract.cgi?id=a261021 (260 words)

	Deconstructive Practice and Legal Theory- Part II
		Derrida argues that this preference is not accidental; it relates to the general "logocentric" bias of Western thought.
		By "logocentric," Derrida means centered on the concept of logos, which he often equates with the idea of presence.
		However,to argue that a logocentric presentation of deconstruction is suspect because it misstates the "true" content of Derridean thought is simply to engage in another logocentric move, that is, that there is privileged reading of Derrida, a true unmediated presence, of which all interpretation are inferior copies.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/jbalkin/articles/decprac2.htm (5379 words)

	J'accuse?
		This scenario looks quite paradoxical since Derrida has been a fierce critic of what he refers to as logocentrism; that branch of Western philosophy whose assumptions are made under the veil of the "metaphysics of presence".
		According to the acclaimed French deconstructionist, logocentrism "was organized in order to exclude or to lower (to put outside or below), the body of the written trace as a didactic and technical metaphor, as servile matter or excrement".
		This exclusion of the trace is the form of repression logocentric philosophy employs and according to Derrida, Freudian repression is possible because it is shielded under the umbrella of logocentric repression.
	www.lacan.com /jaccuse.htm (8100 words)

	Bystory: Music
		It encompasses so many skills, all the way from logocentric structural thinking to free form artistic expression.
		Despite the fact that it is so logocentric in some ways, it provides a complete range of associative skills.
		It is completely in line with Ulmer's take on the intertextuality of electronic writing.
	mason.gmu.edu /~bhawk/bystory/music.html (124 words)

	Tradition, Betrayal and the Politics of Deconstruction-- Part II
		Deconstruction thus becomes important to questions of value to the extent that it is not fully deconstructive to the extent that it depends upon and nourishes itself upon some form of preexisting logocentric practice.
		Her practice is a logocentric practice at its inception even as it seeks to subvert the logocentrism of the particular text.
		Perhaps, then, deconstruction has a distinctive politics which nevertheless escapes logocentrism--it would be a politics that denies the full coherence and autonomy of subjects, and sees subjects as largely or even wholly constructed by the intersection of various cultural and political forces.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/jbalkin/articles/trad2.htm (1969 words)

	SRB Insights 6(2)
		Against this logocentric thesis of the dicentic incompleteness of pictures, I would like to argue that the function of pictures in text-picture combinations says nothing about the semiotic potential of pictures seen without labels or captions.
		The logocentric bias behind Gombrich's argument is even clearer when he continues to discuss pictorial polysemy as a reason to contest the assertive potential of pictures.
		A logocentric bias against the truth potential of pictures can be found as early as with Plato, who wrote: "Painting is far from truth, and therefore, apparently, painting has the effect of reaching only little of everything, and that only in a shadow image" (Politeia X, 598b).
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /epc/srb/srb/pictures.html (4194 words)

	"Speech Versus Writing" In Derrida and Bhart.rhari
		For when Derrida describes language as "writing" he not only means that writing is prior to the spoken reflection of the inner logos, but also that language is not merely a sort of external speaking or writing as the Buddhists suggest.
		Writing, from the logocentric perspective, is seen as a secondary representation of speech to be used when speaking is impossible.
		It is not just the logocentric view which Derrida criticizes, but any philosophy which privileges one opposite or extreme over the other.
	ccbs.ntu.edu.tw /FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/ew95321.htm (8231 words)

	Installations: proposals and documentation
		Logocentric playground (subject) on June 10, 2007 (final state).
		Logocentric Playground: The subject (First Revision); Nov. 27, 2006
		Logocentric Playground: The sign (Final State); Dec. 17, 2006
	www.markcameronboyd.com /installations.html (721 words)

	Logos and Logic
		One lens through which to view Beckett is an essay by Jennifer Martin, "Beckettian Drama as Protest: A Postmodern Examination of the 'Delogocentering' of Language." Martin begins her essay with two quotations: one from the contemptible French twerp Jacques Derrida, and one from Beckett's masterpiece of stupidity, Molloy.
		For a logocentric deconstruction of Derrida, see my note, "The Shining of May 29," which demonstrates how Derrida attempts to convert a rather important mathematical result to his brand of nauseating and pretentious nonsense, and of course gets it wrong.
		There are at least two ways of approaching permutations on 16 elements in what Pascal calls "l'esprit géométrique." My website Diamond Theory discusses the action of the affine group in a four-dimensional finite geometry of 16 points.
	www.log24.com /log/puzzle-logos.html (1476 words)

	Images in American Law - Professor Bernard Hibbitts
		A growing number of law professors are supplementing the logocentric "Socratic method" of classroom instruction with visual materials such as charts, slides and films.
		Finally, and perhaps most significantly, many lawyers are wary of pictures and images because of the challenge which greater reliance on those media would likely present to established hierarchies both inside and outside the legal community.
		Women and minority attorneys might similarly stand to gain from a pictorial turn, as they come from gender and ethnic cultures which have historically been prevented from privileging the textual as much as have the gender and ethnic cultures from which most American white male attorneys hail.
	www.law.pitt.edu /hibbitts/pictor.htm (2860 words)

	CHAPTER XII
		The first stage, ruled by the linguistic sign, sought to see the world or to "catch its meaning" in a logocentric manner, that is, to put the signifier in the service of the signified.
		This model of thought, or "logocentric epoch" in Derrida, is metaphysical closure, a reduction to empirical and rationalist models interested in the search for systematic knowledge where "truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions," as Nietzsche puts it (quoted by Nor ris, l983).
		The logocentric model of city forgets both the semiotic mobility of the cultural text according to which different information is furnished from the same text and the same cultural rules of encoding messages.
	www.crvp.org /book/Series01/I-5/chapter_xii.htm (5011 words)

	CDTL Brief: Cross-disciplinary Teaching - Pedagogy in the University Scholars Programme
		In my view, anthropology is a logocentric discipline, not so much in that anthropology attempts to be a ‘science’ in C.P. Snow’s sense (1993), but in that our descriptions and explanations of cultures depend upon a particular form of presentation of knowledge and reality: ethnography.
		In our class, this difference between logocentric anthropology and art has manifested in various ways where the subject of arts/crafts is presented and analysed from an anthropological point of view.
		We have begun to see words no longer simply as unions of signifiers and signifieds, transparent vehicles capable of directly representing reality in the Saussurean sense (Saussure, 1959), but rather in terms of the hermeneutic tradition as symbols that are capable of being interpreted differently and capable of representing different realities.
	www.cdtl.nus.edu.sg /brief/v5n2/sec2.htm (1183 words)

	Mark Poster_Derrida and Electronic Writing
		In crucial passages at the beginning of Of Grammatology, he asserts both that writing is part of the "logocentric" past and that writing is beyond this past, inaugurating a new critique of language in the present.
		The program of deconstructing logocentrism finds its opening in the interminableness of the task of contextualization, but interminableness of the question of defining the context of deconstruction is an alibi for a closure of discourse.
		By extracting deconstruction from the context of logocentric philosophical and literary texts and reinserting it in the social context of computer writing, deconstruction may better conttibute to the work of critical social theory, to its reconstructive task of analyzing late twentieth-century society.
	www.stanford.edu /class/history34q/readings/Poster/Poster_Electronic_Writing.html (9562 words)

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