Structuralism/Poststructuralism Structuralism is appealing to some critics because it adds a certain objectivity, a SCIENTIFIC objectivity, to the realm of literary studies (which have often been criticized as purely subjective/impressionistic). This scientific objectivity is achieved by subordinating parole to langue; actual usage is abandoned in favor of studying the structure of a system in ...

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BEYOND DECONSTRUCTION Kenneth Kierans I 1 Deconstruction is usually and rightly linked to the philosophical and literary writings of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man. These writings have come under sharp attack in recent years. I would refer you, for example, to David Lehman's discussion of Paul de Man. Deconstruction, it is argued, stands outside of reason and affirms only an endless, ...

Deconstruction's Legal Career-- Part I Copyright 1998 Jack M. Balkin. All rights reserved. Go to Part I Go to Part II Return to Writings Online Deconstruction's Legal Career J. M. Balkin Deconstruction began as a series of techniques invented by Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, and others to interpret literary and philosophical texts. These techniques, in turn, were connected to larger ...

Edited version published in 3 Social and Legal Studies 393 (1994). Copyright 1994-1999 Jack M. Balkin. All Rights Reserved. Return to Writings Online Being Just with Deconstruction by J.M. Balkin For several years now I have been concerned with the problem of how one should apply the insights of deconstructive practice to questions of law and justice. This question is far from easy, although ...

Note: The following paper is the Afterword written for the seventh volume in the Wiener Reihe Themen der Philosophie which is co-edited by Ludwig Nagl (Professor of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria) and Hugh J. Silverman. Entitled Textualit t der Philosophie -- Philosophie und Literatur this volume was published in German in Munich and Vienna by Oldenbourg Verlag in 1994. The ...