[percy-l] Does Deconstruction Have a Future?
Ken Armstrong
armstron at ohiou.edu
Tue Oct 14 14:55:32 EDT 2003
At 11:24 PM 10/9/2003 -0400, James Piat wrote:
>That Bloom imagines he can is part of the case the deonstructionist are
>making. Who's to say he can't?
Can you fill this out just a bit? And since Bloom is serving too many
purposes here, maybe in terms of Blake?
>Though God only knows for sure what either
>he or Blake is talking about. Well maybe Bill Bennet knows -- I forgot
>about him. He seems to be able to clarify every meaning and judge every
>disagreement with a swift and simple application of school boy logic.
I couldn't say word one about Bennet, but what Blake says seems to me
essential.
I can't agree with your judgement of it (which I realize may be something
of a throwaway line?)
>Here's a Derrida quote I dug up from one of the interviews in the book
>POINTS...
>
>"Deconstruction as such is reducible to neither a method nor an analysis
>(the reduction to simple elements); it goes beyond critical decision itself.
>That is why it is not negative, even though it has often been interpreted as
>such despite all sorts of warnings.
Declarations and warnings or no, it seems to have been judged by its
effects. It is one thing for JD to say it is not negative; it is another
for it to turn out that way.
> For me, it always accompanies an
>affirmative exigency, I would even say that it never proceeds without
>love..."
I get nervous around people who proclaim that their actions are
animated by love, and, the tacit implication is, therefore they are
positive. This may not be what JD is doing; or it may be a case of "with
affirmative exigencies like these, who needs oppositional strategies?"
Ken A.
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