Reviews for Deconstruction - Derrida

The average rating for Deconstruction - Derrida based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-01-10 00:00:00 Justin Meyer I'll confess from the start: I have a block with Derrida. Some theory - The Gift, The Secret - I find interesting, and there are some phenomenal lines in his work, but as a whole I don't think it should be so difficult to understand someone's thrust of thought. Is it good thinking if it's damn near impenetrable? I'm not sure. Someone stop Butler, Spivak etc. editing and translating each other, dear god. Anyway, somehow Wolfreys managed to make him even more impenetrable - a rare feat. Wolfreys repeatedly states that there is no such thing as 'deconstruction' as a methodology, which I even agree with, but he stated this so much that I almost lost the will to read the rest of the book. What's the point? If it can't exist? Urgh. Furthermore, the whole text featured this idea of 'ethical reading' that at no point explained what that term even meant. Eventually I pieced together that Wolfreys seemed to mean the idea of remaining open to the text, to not shutting it down - basically, READING A WORK OF FICTION. I don't know. I left this book even less impressed with Derrida than before. Which is a shame. Next up: Deleuze. Mmm.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-03-25 00:00:00 Jacob Beaupre I found the majority of this work interesting, well researched, and concise. Though slightly dry, it was an accessible read. Did think that the work could broaden to explore such things as reader participation (though tapped into in later chapters, in the chapter exploring psychological reactions to fiction such phenomena as fan fiction were left out.