Volume 30, Number 16 · October 27, 1983
The Word Turned Upside Down
By John R. Searle
On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism
by Jonathan Culler
Cornell University Press, 307 pp., $8.95 (paper)
'Deconstruction' is the name of a currently influential movement in American literary criticism. The underlying theory was developed not by literary critics but by a French professor of philosophy, Jacques Derrida, and many of his ideas are in turn owing to Nietzsche and Heidegger. Culler writes as a disciple of Derrida and his primary aim is to expound his master's philosophy and show how it 'bears on the most important issues of literary theory' (p. 12).
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