[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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