Deconstruction

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Simon Morgan-Wortham (Kingston University)

Ed. by Graham Allen, University College Cork
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.07: French Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

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Concept/ Method (philosophical)

Dates

Date of occurrence 1966

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France (Location)
United States (Location)

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Although it rejects conventional notions of the original author and although it is associated with a number of important writers and thinkers, deconstruction is most immediately associated with the numerous texts published by the French philosopher and writer Jacques Derrida (1930-2004). In a series of texts published during the late-1960s and 1970s Derrida demonstrated the radically destabilising effects of deconstructive thought and practice and deconstruction has subsequently influenced a wide range of academic disciplines (philosophy, literary criticism, architecture, sociology, linguistics, cultural studies) at the same time as creating wide-spread cultural debate and at times controversy in Europe, the U.S.A. and across the world. Deconstruction is not a school or a movement in any…

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Citation: Morgan-Wortham, Simon. "Deconstruction". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 January 2006 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=261, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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