Introduction

A. Rajnath

pp. 1-9

in: A. Rajnath (ed), Deconstruction, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1989

Abstract

Deconstruction is of French origin but it has found most fertile soil in America. Derrida's philosophy has not been taken seriously by philosophers, but American literary critics have built on its basic assumptions the magnificent edifice of a new critical movement. Interestingly enough, Derrida himself emerges as a major literary critic, if judged by his own standards which do not distinguish between literature and philosopy.

Cited authors

Derrida Jacques