The critical difference
Deconstruction and postmodernism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20156412 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bert Olivier (0000-0002-3138-1948, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 287-298 |
| Publication date | 1988-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387 |
| Publisher | Unisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02564718808529874 |
| OpenAlex | W2075204298 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
Although deconstruction seems, at first sight, to be a variety of postmodernism, the matter is not that simple. This article attempts to show that, certain similarities notwithstanding, Derridean deconstruction and postmodernism differ in important respects. It therefore first reconstructs the emergence of deconstruction from Derrida's “critique” of Husserl's transcendental phenomenology, in the course of which the role played by the problematical status of the written sign and of temporality in Derrida's reading of Husserl is emphasized and linked to the far‐reaching spatio‐temporal implications of différance. In the discussion that follows, postmodernism is placed within the larger conceptual context of modernity, postmodernity, and modernism. The question of modernity's viability is shown to be appraised in divergent ways from the perspectives of philosophical modernism (Haber‐mas) and postmodernism (Lyotard), respectively. With the aid of Johnston the affinity of deconstruction with literary/artistic postmodernism is subsequently explored in preparation for the final stage of the argument, in which deconstruction's decisive irreconcilability with postmodernism (and modernism) is demonstrated. This is done in terms of Allan Megill's notion of crisis, formulated with reference to Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault and Derrida, and centres on the latter's attack upon the idea of crisis, presupposed by postmodernism as well as modernism
Aesthetics · Art · Différance · Epistemology · Literature · Metaphysics · Modernity · Postmodern music · Postmodern theatre · Postmodernism · Postmodernity · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
The Anti-aesthetic
Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry
Pragmatism, Relativism, and Irrationalism
Postmodernism and Politics
Postmodernism and Politics
Habermas and Modernity
But, beyond… (Open Letter to Anne McClintock and Rob Nixon)
Modern French Philosophy
Rhetoric and Form
The Postmodern Condition
Mapping the Postmodern
Modernity versus Postmodernity
Racism's Last Word
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |