Quotes Tagged With :deconstruction

Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an ‘eternal charm’, even though....

A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition....

In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class....

To be born into, to go to school, to study, to learn, to play, to worship, to love, to work and to die....

humanity suffers terribly from the demons it has created over lengths of time. we learn from nothing....

Certain American uses of deconstruction, Derrida has observed, work to ensure ‘an institutional closure’....

Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but....

It goes without saying that these effects do not suffice to annul the necessity for a “change of terrain.”....

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity....