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logocentrism

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lo·go·cen·trism  (lg-sntrzm)
n.
1. A structuralist method of analysis, especially of literary works, that focuses upon words and language to the exclusion of non-linguistic matters, such as an author's individuality or historical context.
2. Excessive attention paid to the meanings of words or distinctions in their usage.

logo·centric adj.
logo·centrist n. & adj.


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More confusions are fostered when the modern is identified with a caricatured version of the Enlightenment as autonomous reason, logocentrism and other ills, or is used to name a variety of cultural ailments such as a colonialism, environmental devastation, and mega-corporation economics.
And just as in the early days Derrida insisted that logocentrism was not a pathology but an enabler, so was this madness.
of logocentrism, linguisticism, phonologism, the demystification or the de-sedimentation of the autonomic hegemony of language .
 
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