Synopses & Reviews
Deconstruction is so labyrinthine (and rumored to be fatal) that it's become the monster that murdered philosophy When tacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction uses such buzz words as "phallogocencism" and "transcendental signified," humanities students and aspiring philosophers may get weak, in the knees. In "Deconstruction for Beginners, James Powell provides and explanations of the theory's central elements and highlights both key texts and lesser-known works.