“As soon as we cease to believe in such an engineer and in a discourse which breaks with the received historical discourse, and as soon as we admit that every finite discourse is bound by a certain bricolage and that the engineer and the scientist are also species of bricoleurs , then the very idea of bricolage is menaced and the difference in which it took on its meaning breaks down.” BelieveIdeasCertainDifferencesBreakScientistHistoricalSpeciesBoundsCeaseEngineersDiscourseBreaking DownFinite Book:Writing and Difference Source: Writing and Difference
“Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the tradition of a certain Marxism, in a certain spirit of Marxism.” EyeSpiritCertainInterestTraditionMarxismDeconstruction Author:Jacques Derrida
“There is no rigorous and effective deconstruction without the faithful memory of philosophies and literatures, without the respectful and competent reading of texts of the past, as well as singular works of our own time. Deconstruction is also a certain thinking about tradition and context. Mark Taylor evokes this with great clarity in the course of a remarkable introduction. He reconstitutes a set of premises without which no deconstruction could have seen the light of day.” ThinkingWellsPhilosophyLightPastCertainCoursesReadingLiteratureMemoriesTraditionMarkClarityFaithfulRemarkableIntroductionPremisesRespectfulCompetentEvokeDeconstruction Author:Jacques Derrida
“In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.” WritingPhilosophyDreamCertainLiteratureLanguageModelsAlgeria Author:Jacques Derrida
“Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.” CertainReaderInstitutionsTerritory Author:Jacques Derrida
