[percy-l] Does Deconstruction Have a Future?

Ken Armstrong armstron at ohiou.edu
Tue Oct 7 16:43:19 EDT 2003


At 10:38 AM 10/7/2003 -0400, Jim Piat wrote:

Thanks for another delightful post!  Personally, I think the essay is a bit 
harsh on deconstruction.  I don't think the deconstruction movement denies 
all possibility of communication or meaning  -- just the idea that there is 
a fixed meaning that inheres to events apart from our interpretation of them.

Jim,

    Deconstruction tries to take a partial insight and stretch it into the 
whole truth. The humorous thing about it is not where it will finish, but 
where will it start? It must appeal to what it supposedly undermines in 
order to get the first word out. It is too much a tool for an ideology and 
too little a tool for thought. As for harshness, things happen in a 
context. I think that is what Percy recognized in his denunciatory remarks 
about deconstruction.

Ken A.

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