Jacques Derrida

The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy in Republic Abstract: Plato sternly expels poets and their poems when creating his ideal land in Republic. And Starting from Plato, the quarrel between poetry and philosophy has been through almost the entire history of western thoughts. By combing the viewpoints of Socrates, the protagonist of Plato’s Republic, this paper will analyze why classical philosophers side against traditional poets and discover Plato’s real purpose of such a deportation. The discussion

duction The philosophical ideas of a time often shape the psyche of entire societies. For my parents’ generation, intellectual thought and philosophies were more present than ever. The 1970s through the 1990s were full of people who created new ways of thinking and understanding. So new ideas that were presented are deconstruction, individualism, liberalism, post-modernism, and others. All of these “-isms” were used to help explain society and certain phenomena. While it is obvious that these ideas

Deconstruction is first developed by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. The definition for deconstruction is not easy to understand, and Derrida and his interpreters actually intend it to be difficult. It was first meant a method of interpretation and analysis of a text or a speech. He introduced the concept of deconstruction in connection with his linguistic philosophy and grammatology. When deconstruct a text or a speech, it is to draw out conflicting logics of sense and implication, with

Nationalism and the Imagination by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has being the hardest text I have read during my theory class at Sydney College of the Arts in 2014. My task was to read and explain the text to my theory class and my lecturer Dr Adam Geczy in 8 minutes as a YouTube video. This was an almost impossible task because Spivak’s Nationalism and the Imagination is a small book of 75 pages and at Sydney College of the Arts’s library we are only able to borrow the book for 2 hours. I later

Reader, Readability, and Relativity in the Criticism of Propp, Barthes, and Fish   What exactly constitutes a text? What classifies a text as having canonical quality, what meaning can be derived from that text, and who exactly makes these types of decisions? Welcome to the world of literary criticism, where the approach to the text and the level of reader inclusion varies based upon the school a critic identifies with in his endeavor and/or the individual reader may happen to take most interest

Sociology 2XX Critically anlayse a popular culture ‘text’ utlising relevant theories and debates In sociological theory there are many concepts discussed that are utilized in the analyses of society and culture. Some of the main concepts are Postmodernism, Historical Materialism, Structuralism, Interpretive Sociology and Poststructuralism to name a few. These theories are relevant to the research of understanding certain or specific cultural texts. These concepts provide problems and solutions

world is created out of oppositions, divisions and separations between the one and the Other. When people collide or meet, in that sense, in the meeting between different cultural backgrounds they tend to define the others by defining themselves. Jacque Derrida puts it in his essay Archive Fever: Freudian Impressions “every Other is every other Other, is altogether Other “(p.77). Alternatively, as Harper lee sets it clearly in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird “you never really understand a person until

German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, is one of the most read, least understood- yet influential thinker who brought forth new questions for many philosophers to follow. There are many accusations and rumors around Nietzsche. In “What Nietzsche Really Said” these accusations and rumors that surrounded Nietzsche are allayed and supported by his impact and influential views. “What Nietzsche really said depends on what one reads and how one interpret what ones reads” thus, the interpretation of

any case, her happiness was at its peak when her significant other got back home, and it turned out to be a lie. Specialists arrive and articulate that Louise passed on of a heart attack expedited by bliss. Now deconstruction was discovered by Jacques Derrida. Deconstruction is a

Peter Eisenman as a representative of Deconstruction started his work from 50 's to 21 century. He rejects the traditional design process of architecture and establishes his own fragment form of architecture. By introducing different domain workings were created after World War II. He developed a generate process to combine all human knowledge into architecture. Furthermore diagram method has been widely use in Eisenman 's work to both show the working process and be a part of design. Finally trace