Wesley Kort's Take, Read is a tour de force directed against the claims of post-modern
deconstructionism, according to which nothing can be read as scripture.
There is one important up-to-date approach I rather miss: not any of today's silly fashions, of course (given credence by the editor even as he dismisses them), but what one might loosely call
deconstructionism, the approach to evidence (especially when posthumous) with a view to discerning the construct within it.
Wilson's address was entitled, "The Map Is Not The Territory: The Future Is Not The Past." In it, he examined the basic postulate of general semantics (M does not equal T) in regards to other fields, including quantum mechanics, neurolinguistic programming, multi-culturalism, and
deconstructionism.
As Derrida's
deconstructionism has demonstrated - though poets and writers are always ahead of philosophers - to highlight the insignificant or the fringe or the margin naturally threatens the center, which is by definition a political act (Culler, 193-4).
She sets out her own distinctive approach by building on feminist insights drawn from
deconstructionism to argue that we can challenge the constitution of meanings in criminological discourse if we recognize that meanings can change.
It is no accident that
Deconstructionism emerged in the philosophy schools at the same time as received perceptions of space and time began to be dissolved by the revolutions in communications and capital flow.
Marxist aesthetics, structuralism, critical theory,
deconstructionism, and postmodernism are all familiar terms in contemporary art criticism.
Aho deconstructs the jargon of
deconstructionism while illustrating how such a theoretical framework can be applied to those who hate and those who work with the haters.
Romanticism: A Critical Reader, composed of eighteen previously published articles or extracts from books, claims to represent 'most of the movements active during the last fifteen years, including feminism, new historicism, genre theory, psychoanalysis and
deconstructionism'.
Oyebode, like most of the other scholars represented in the book, remains in the peculiar position of the literary critic from a non-European background, who is trying to at once subvert and challenge western hypotheses of art and language, while using the very machinery of western discourse: the fairly politicized language of
deconstructionism and discourse theory.