Jacques Derrida
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| - | The thinking and approach of Jacques Derrida was relevant for geography. As already mentioned deconstruction is based on showing paradoxes, contradictions and contingent nature. It is a way to make certain catgories. Every term is always linked to another term, but there is always a difference between those two. An example is the paradox between the terms production and consumption. Shops and factories are different but they are related. Factories need shops to consume the products, and shops need factories to produce the products. There will always needs that are consumed in shops, and that means that these products has to be produced. This could lead to regional development. An example is Ikea, this company provides regional econmical effects. The thinking of Jacques Deridda had influence on the geographical way of thinking | + | The thinking and approach of Jacques Derrida was relevant for geography. As already mentioned deconstruction is based on showing paradoxes, contradictions and contingent nature. It is a way to make certain catgories. Every term is always linked to another term, but there is always a difference between those two. An example is the paradox between the terms production and consumption. Shops and factories are different but they are related. Factories need shops to consume the products, and shops need factories to produce the products. There will always needs that are consumed in shops, and that means that these products has to be produced. This could lead to regional development. An example is Ikea, this company provides regional econmical effects. The thinking of Jacques Deridda had influence on the geographical way of thinking, for example regional development. |
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Life
Derrida was born in Algiers, then French Algeria, in a Jewish family. He spent his youth in El-Bair where he dreamed of becoming a professional football player but also read works of philosophers and philosophers such as Rousseau, Camus, Nietzsche and Gide. He began to think seriously about philosophy around the time he moved to France where he stayed the rest of his life.
Theories
Deconstruction Theory
Derrida is known as the founding father of the deconstruction theory, which is a method of analysis that seeks to critique and destabilize stable systems of meaning in discourses by showing their paradoxes, contradictions and contingent nature (Approaches to Human Geography, p. 338). One of Derrida's explanations on deconstruction is the famous sentence 'there's nothing outside the text'. Hereby he means that when you interpret a text by several references are also texts. There is no truly objective from where you can begin to interpret or understand a text.
Work
It was in 1967 (almost twenty years after his move to France) that Derrida really arrived as a philosopher of importance. He published three texts: Of Grammatology (De la grammatologie 1967), Writing and Difference (L'écriture et la différance 1967), and Speech and Phenomena (La voix et le phénomène 1967).
His most famous work is Of Grammatology. In this writing Derrida reveals and then undermines the speech-writing opposition that he argues has been seen as an influential factor in Western thought. His preoccupation with language in this text is typical of much of his early work, and since the publication of these and other major texts, deconstruction has moved from occupying a role in continental Europe, to becoming a significant player in the Anglo-American philosophical context. This is particularly so in the areas of literary criticism, and cultural studies, where deconstruction’s method of textual analysis has inspired theorists like Paul de Man.
Example
The thinking and approach of Jacques Derrida was relevant for geography. As already mentioned deconstruction is based on showing paradoxes, contradictions and contingent nature. It is a way to make certain catgories. Every term is always linked to another term, but there is always a difference between those two. An example is the paradox between the terms production and consumption. Shops and factories are different but they are related. Factories need shops to consume the products, and shops need factories to produce the products. There will always needs that are consumed in shops, and that means that these products has to be produced. This could lead to regional development. An example is Ikea, this company provides regional econmical effects. The thinking of Jacques Deridda had influence on the geographical way of thinking, for example regional development.
References
Approaches to Human Geography, Sixth Edition, SAGE, 2006.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 12 January 2010.
Caputo, J.D. (1997). Deconstruction in a nutshel: A conversation with Jacaques Derrida. Fordham University Press.
Contributors
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