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DECONSTRUCTION - DAVID J GUNKEL KARTONIERT (TB)

An accessible introduction to a concept often considered impossibly abstruse  demonstrating its
power as a conceptual tool in the twenty-first century.This volume in the MIT Press Essential
Knowledge series offers a clear and concise introduction to a topic often considered difficult
and abstruse: deconstruction. David Gunkel sorts out the concept  terminology  and practices of
deconstruction  not to defend academic orthodoxy  or to disseminate the thought of Jacques
Derrida--the fabricator of the neologism and progenitor of the concept--but to provide readers
with a powerful conceptual tool for the twenty-first century.Gunkel explains that
deconstruction is not simply the opposite of construction--the deconstructed jacket hanging in
your closet is not  strictly speaking  accurately named--or synonymous with destruction. It is
a way to think beyond the construction destruction dichotomy and all other conceptual
dichotomies and logical oppositions. After describing what deconstruction is not  and
developing an abstract and schematic characterization derived from Derrida  Gunkel offers
examples in (rather than of) deconstruction  including logocentrism (the speech writing
dichotomy) and virtuality (the ruling philosophical binary of real appearance)  remix (the
original copy distinction)  and the posthuman figure of the cyborg (the human machine
conceptual pairing). Finally  Gunkel discusses the costs and benefits of deconstruction 
considering the many things deconstruction is good for and identifying potential problems 
including Eurocentrism  relativism  difficulties in communicating the concept  and
reappropriation.

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