Deconstruction and American poetry

Williams and Stevens

Rajeev Patke

pp. 158-179

in: A. Rajnath (ed), Deconstruction, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1989

Abstract

First, the matter of a definition: what exactly are we to understand by the word "deconstruction"? In practice, deconstruction is exemplified primarily in the critical readings made by the contemporary French philosopher Jacques Derrida, of a series of texts in the history of Western philosophy, from Plato to Descartes, Roussea and Hegel to Husserl and Heidegger, and of a series of more recer texts in the history of structuralism and post-structuralism, from Saussure to Lévi-Strauss, Lacan and Foucault.

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund

Heidegger Martin

Derrida Jacques

Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Lacan Jacques

Descartes René

Plato

de Saussure Ferdinand

Foucault Michel