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[Anonymous No.4233794]

Can anybody explain deconstruction in a way that doesn't seem intentionally obscure? I want to start reading postmodern philosophy, but I feel like too much of it relies on this idea of deconstruction.

[Anonymous No.4233858]

http://www.iep.utm.edu/derrida/#H2
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/derrida/#Dec

postmodernism is far, far larger than just deconstruction. you sound ignorant but good tidings on your will to learn

[Anonymous No.4233864]

>>4233794

deconstruction is a made up word by professors who don't have any expertise in anything at all.

I wouldn't give it much thought. It is nothing.

[Anonymous No.4233874]

>>4233794
To start learning what you called "postmodern philosophy", you have to understand phenomenology especially Heidegger, German idealism, structuralism, the implication of Goedel's theorema, Kuhn, and Freud.

Before learning Derrida you have to learn Husserl, Heidegger, structuralism, and Levinas.

[Anonymous No.4233878]

>>4233874
I forgot Marxism, particularly cultural Marxism/Critical Theory on the prerequisites of the label "postmodernism".

[Anonymous No.4234033]

>>4233878
Any Marxist that uses the word postmodern except infront of the noun "cunts" isn't a Marxist but rather a postmodernist cunt.

[Anonymous No.4234037]

>>4233878
>cultural Marxism

[Anonymous No.4234091]

>>4234037
>>4234033
Those are only labels. Conventions.