Name: Gausvami Surbhi A.

Sem: 2

Submitted to: Dr. Dilip Barad

Department of English,

MKBU University

Paper no:7

Paper name: Literary theory and criticism

Enrollment No: 2069108420170008

Email id: gausvamisurbhi17@gmail.com

Batch –year: 2016-18

Roll No: 24

July 15, 1930- October 9, 2004

Derrida is best known for Deconstruction

During his career Derrida published more than 40 books

His work still has a major influence in the academy of continental Europe, south America and all other countries.

Martin Heidegger is German philosopher and a seminal thinker.

26 sep. 1889 – 26 may 1976. According to Internet encyclopedia of

philosophy he is “ widely acknowledge to be one of the most original and important philosophers of the 20th century”.

Heidegger is best known for his contribution to phenomenology and existentialism.

Stanford Encyclopedia of philosophy gave the quotation “ his thinking should be identifies as part of such philosophical movement only with extreme care and qualification”

Seeds of Deconstruction sprouted from Heidegger.

Heidegger, fraud and Nietzsche

The term ‘Destruction’ in Germany translated as ‘Deconstruction’ in French.

Western tradition neglected the question of “ being of being”

Both tried to transfer the western philosophy.

Like Heidegger, Derrida wants to reinvent the language in which philosophy is done.

Like the question of ‘being of being’, the all question of writing is neglected in the entire tradition of western thought.

Derrida criticizing Heidegger that you are also see language as ‘speech’ rather than writing

Entire tendency to privilege speech over writing is what Derrida call ‘ phonocentricism’.

Heidegger Destruction

Transfer western philosophy

Theme of language

Metaphysical presence

Speech

Derrida Deconstruction Reinvent western

philosophy Deconstruction of

language Absence of something Writing