Troping to Pretoria
The Rise and Fall of Deconstruction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11049447 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R A Berman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 1990 |
| Issue | 85 |
| Pages | 4-16 |
| Publication date | 1990-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Telos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-6514 • E-ISSN: 1940-459X |
| Publisher | Telos Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3817/0990085004 |
| OpenAlex | W2063838008 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Deconstruction combined a theoretical skepticism toward language — no meaning is fully fixed or exhaustively definable — with a practical realism in pursuit of institutional power. The radical doubt, on the one hand, permitted the deconstructive critic to claim an oppositional stance, an ostentatious hostility to authoritarian structures, reason and universalism, logocentrism and Western metaphysics. The conservative Realpolitik of the deconstructive academy, on the other, permitted it to occupy positions of considerable authority in many of the most prestigious American universities during the deconstructive decade: from the publication of the English translation of Grammatology in 1976 to the public debate in 1988 over Paul de Man's collaborationist activities in Nazi-occupied Belgium
Aesthetics · Art · Authoritarianism · Deconstruction (building · Democracy · Epistemology · Literature · Metaphysics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Realism · Realpolitik · Skepticism · Sociology · Universalism · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2015 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |