The Roots of Deconstruction and the Duality of Speech and Writing in Jacques Derrida

Abstract

In the midst of civilizational immersion, terminological surge and variation in creative and literary evaluation tastes, the literary and critical arena has undergone a celebration of theoretical diversity and evaluative behaviour. Disintegration is part of this cultural knee. We find it to have provoked critical and intellectual fluctuations between a receptor, a celebrated and a rejectionist. The conventional from which they are indignant and regarded as destructive, ridiculous and exciting, as we hardly find a European intellectual centre in which there is no controversy about the value of this "deconstructive" approach to criticism, as it raises the right problem of celebrating either: speech or writing?