ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was the founder of “deconstruction, ” a way of criticizing not only both literary and philosophical texts but also political institutions.

Detailed explanation-2: -Derrida is most celebrated as the principal exponent of deconstruction, a term he coined for the critical examination of the fundamental conceptual distinctions, or “oppositions, ” inherent in Western philosophy since the time of the ancient Greeks.

Detailed explanation-3: -Derrida describes the task of deconstruction as the identification of metaphysics of presence, or logocentrism in western philosophy. Metaphysics of presence is the desire for immediate access to meaning, the privileging of presence over absence.

Detailed explanation-4: -Jacques Derrida was born to a Sephardic Jewish family in 1930, in El-Biar, a suburb of Algiers, at a time when Algeria was a French colony. How important to him were these two facts: being Jewish and being from Algeria?