Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion of Walker Percy

[Ken Armstrong <armstron AT ohiou.edu>]

At 10:38 AM 10/7/2003 -0400, Jim Piat wrote:

Thanks for another delightful post! 
Personally, I think the essay is a bit harsh on deconstruction.  I
don't think the deconstruction movement denies all possibility of
communication or meaning  -- just the idea that there is a fixed
meaning that inheres to events apart from our interpretation of
them.
  
Jim,

   Deconstruction tries to take a partial insight and stretch
it into the whole truth. The humorous thing about it is not where it will
finish, but where will it start? It must appeal to what it supposedly
undermines in order to get the first word out. It is too much a tool for
an ideology and too little a tool for thought. As for harshness, things
happen in a context. I think that is what Percy recognized in his
denunciatory remarks about deconstruction.

Ken A.