I n 1990, at the Humanities Research Institute at University of California at Irvine, I found myself sitting next to Jacques Derrida at a lecture given by Ernesto Laclau. The topic was Antonio Gramsci ...

Over the past four decades, scholars in the American humanities have used deconstruction — a style of interpretation pioneered by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida — to question the binary ...

Deconstruction has sometimes been championed as if it was a kind of poetic (as opposed to say analytic) writing. The identification has encouraged some to relegate deconstruction to the shadows or ...

Chengkai Gu ’24 is collaborating with professor Paul Franco on a paper titled “Deconstructing Deconstruction.” Deconstruction is a mid-twentieth century literary and philosophical movement that ...

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