Deconstruction

Derrida’s Critique of Logocentrism

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on March 21, 2016 • ( 3 )

Derrida’s concept of deconstruction displaced structuralism and undertook to decentre or subvert the traditional claims for the existence of all foundations such as knowledge, meaning, truth and the subject. Derrida identifies in all of Western philosophic traditions, a logocentrism or… Read More ›

Hillis Miller’s Concept of Critic as Host

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on March 18, 2016 • ( 2 )

The prominent Yale critic, J. Hillis Miller’s The Critic as host could be viewed as a reply to M.H. Abrams The Deconstructive Angel, which he presented at a session of the Modern Language-Association in December 1976, criticizing deconstruction and the methods… Read More ›