Jacques Derrida

John Stuart Mill, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau all addressed the issue of freedom and law within a society. Mill's “On Liberty”, and Rousseau’s discourse “On the Social Contract” are all absorbing fictional works which underline the concept of the ideal state of each in the eyes of both these men and present different visions of the very nature of man’s freedom and the law. The three have distinct views regarding how much freedom man ought to have in political society because they have different…

the narrator’s undermining of racial, sexual, and war-time binaries in Vietnam mirrors the simultaneous undermining of racial, sexual, and war-time binaries in America during the 1960s and early 1970s. It also mirrors twentieth-century-philosopher Jacques Derrida’s theoretical study of binary oppositions and the undermining of their respective…

“what is theory?”: the interdisciplinary nature of theory, how it is analytical and speculative, its dispute of common sense, and how theory relates to metacognition. To complete this task, Culler employs two inverted examples––Foucault on sex and Derrida on language. Culler demonstrates what theory––a complicated genre––is through exemplification and highlighting its key attributes. To start, Culler classifies theory as writing that “succeeds in challenging and reorienting thinking in fields…

during pregnancy. When viewing the text through the deconstructive theoretical lens, the words hills and elephants could have infinite significations and meanings rather than just carrying the central idea of pregnancy. Jacques Derrida claims that the center “has no natural locus (Derrida 916)” rather it serves as a function in “which an infinite number of sign-substitutions…

He is a leading voice in postcolonial studies and is highly influenced by Western post-structuralist theorists notably, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault. His theory is expounded in his books, Nation and Narration (1990) and The Location of Culture (1994). He, a diasporic person like Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak has popularized postcolonial theory by giving new…

always wrong. There are few philosophers who described themselves as relativists, but most of the leading thinkers who have been accused of relativism are Ludwig Wittgenstein, Peter Winch, Thomas Kuhn, Richard Rorty, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida. There are many different kinds of relativism, all of them only have two features in common: 1. they all assert that one thing (e.g., moral values, beauty, knowledge, taste, or meaning) is relative to some particular framework or standpoint…

Creative Histories Presentation History is a narrative of human experience, written retrospectively. There is a process of evaluation and reflection that colours, interprets and reshapes events into patterns of memory that can be selective and distinctly individual. Authenticity and verifiable details make history a more reliable ‘story’ of human experience through the additional use of personal memories. Memory is fragile, often short term and highly subjective. The mind’s impact on memory can…

Ornette Coleman (or in full- Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman) was born in Texas on the 9th of March 1930 and died last year (2015) on the 11th of June, in New York. He was a saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. He released loads of albums over the span of his career and is known to be one of the most important initiators of free jazz. When Ornette Coleman was a child he played alto, then moved onto tenor saxophone in his teenage years. His early style of jazz was influenced not only by…

Not only do all members of National Honor Society practice healthy academic careers, share a commitment to servicing our community, and demonstrate effective leadership, they also showcase exemplary characters that are observed by their advisors and peers. Despite contrary belief, character is not only defined by who you are when no one is watching; it is who you are at all times. You present your character when you are when you are alone in a room, in a busy crowd, with your teammates on the…

The idea that heterosexuality is the absolute absence of homosexuality is one example. Derrida would say that these binary oppositions are defined through the way meaning is made, and the labels and meaning we give to the oppositions. All of these terms that I have introduced have a couple of things in common, one of the most notable being…