Postmodernisme versus deconstructie

Referentie:

Ermarth, Elizabeth Deeds, art. "Postmodernism", in: Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward Craig (ed.), http://www.rep.routledge.com/article/N044SECT2 (geraadpleegd op 27.11.2011).

 

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Mijn Documenten/Filosofische bibliotheek

 

Extract:

"Postmodernism differs from deconstruction, with which it is sometimes confused. Deconstruction is a methodology with agendas similar to some of postmodernism but with a much more limited capability. Deconstruction is a negative movement by which an interpreter of a code or sign-system (for example a novel or a psychoanalysis) looks for what is not present rather than what is present – looks for the points of crisis and breakdown in a system or a rationalization rather than its more obvious positivities. This methodology has the initial value of opening interpretation to complex reading, but it soon gets lost in circularity; the negative quality of its questioning often limits the creativity of the response. It is almost as though deconstruction is riveted on what it has not got, operating on a kind of nostalgia for the referential view of language that postmodernism revises." (2 The role of language)