Logocentrism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22369585 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Warren Fincher (Valley City State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 1-2 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosl055.pub2 |
| OpenAlex | W4246856133 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Logocentrism refers to the tendency in western civilization to privilege the linguistic signifier (a spoken or written word) over the signified (the thing to which the word refers). Though coined in the 1920s by the German philosopher Ludwig Klages, the continued importance of the term resides in Derrida's critique of the philosophical tendency in western civilization to be logocentric. Derrida asserts that western discourses generally tend to impose hierarchies of power by defining certain concepts against necessarily subordinated alternatives. Extending this critique to logocentrism, Derrida notes the tendency in western philosophy and semiotics to value the signifier as opposed to the thing it signifies in what he calls a “metaphysics of presence.”
Art · Civilization · Epistemology · German · Linguistics · Literature · Metaphysics · Semiotics · Western culture · Critical Theory and Philosophy · History · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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