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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Deconstruction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Deconstruction's central concern is a radical critique of the Enlightenment project and of metaphysics, including in particular the founding texts by such philosophers as Plato, Rousseau, and Husserl, but also other sorts of texts, including literature.
		Deconstruction identifies in the Western philosophical tradition a "metaphysics of presence" (also known as logocentrism or sometimes phallogocentrism) which holds that speech-thought (the logos) is a privileged, ideal, and self-present entity, through which all discourse and meaning are derived.
		For example, while deconstruction criticizes the binary opposition between presence and absence, and the tendency to favor presence, deconstruction does not go a step further and advocate absence, or argue that the Western favoritism of presence is simply a bad thing.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Deconstruction (6727 words)

	Jacques Derrida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The history of metaphysics, like the history of the West, is the history of these metaphors and metonymies.
		This fluidity stands as a legacy of traditional (that is, Platonist) metaphysics founded on oppositions that seek to establish a stability of meaning through conceptual absolutes where one term, for example "good", is elevated to a status that designates its opposite, in this case "evil", as its perversion, lack or inferior.
		No "meaning" is stable: rather, the only thing that keeps the sense of unity within a text is what Derrida called the "metaphysics of presence", where presence was granted the privilege of truth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Derrida (5929 words)

	Deconstruction Article, Deconstruction Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Roughly speaking, a deconstructive reading is an analysis of a text that uncovers thedifference between the text's structure and its Western metaphysical essence.Deconstructive readings show how Western texts cannot simply be read as a single author communicating a distinct message, butinstead must be read as sites of conflict within a given culture or worldview.
		Deconstruction's central concern is a radical critique of theEnlightenment project and of metaphysics, including in particular thefounding texts by such philosophers as Plato, Rousseau, and Husserl, but also othersorts of texts, including literature.
		Deconstruction identifies in the Western philosophical tradition a " metaphysics of presence " (also known as logocentrism or sometimes phallogocentrism) which holds that speech-thought (the logos) is a privileged, ideal, andself-present entity, through which all discourse and meaning are derived.
	www.anoca.org /text/derrida/deconstruction.html (4329 words)

	Postmodernism and Its Critics
		Derrida directly attacks Western philosophy's understanding of reason.
		He sees reason as dominated by “a metaphysics of presence.” Derrida agrees with structuralism's insight, that meaning is not inherent in signs, but he proposes that it is incorrect to infer that anything reasoned can be used as a stable and timeless model (Appignanesi 1995: 77).
		If this is true then, contrary to postmodernism, this postulate supports the existence of “mind-independent external reality” which is called “metaphysical realism”.
	www.as.ua.edu /ant/Faculty/murphy/436/pomo.htm (3343 words)

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