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  • From: Ken Armstrong <armstron AT ohiou.edu>
  • To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [percy-l] Does Deconstruction Have a Future?
  • Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:55:32 -0400

At 11:24 PM 10/9/2003 -0400, James Piat wrote:

That Bloom imagines he can is part of the case the deonstructionist are
making. Who's to say he can't?

Can you fill this out just a bit? And since Bloom is serving too many purposes here, maybe in terms of Blake?


Though God only knows for sure what either
he or Blake is talking about. Well maybe Bill Bennet knows -- I forgot
about him. He seems to be able to clarify every meaning and judge every
disagreement with a swift and simple application of school boy logic.

I couldn't say word one about Bennet, but what Blake says seems to me essential.
I can't agree with your judgement of it (which I realize may be something of a throwaway line?)


Here's a Derrida quote I dug up from one of the interviews in the book
POINTS...

"Deconstruction as such is reducible to neither a method nor an analysis
(the reduction to simple elements); it goes beyond critical decision itself.
That is why it is not negative, even though it has often been interpreted as
such despite all sorts of warnings.

Declarations and warnings or no, it seems to have been judged by its effects. It is one thing for JD to say it is not negative; it is another for it to turn out that way.


For me, it always accompanies an
affirmative exigency, I would even say that it never proceeds without
love..."

I get nervous around people who proclaim that their actions are animated by love, and, the tacit implication is, therefore they are positive. This may not be what JD is doing; or it may be a case of "with affirmative exigencies like these, who needs oppositional strategies?"

Ken A.





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