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The essay Structure Sign and Play in the Discourse of the human
University in 1966. Derrida has in this paper attacked the systematic, quasi-
Saussures concept of the structure of the language, and later represented by the
language bears within itself the necessity of its own critique. Deconstructive
criticism based on this assertion, attempts to show that no text has a determinate
communication and the reader can have his meaning out of the text. This paper
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Structurality of structure
Derridas essay begins with the word perhaps which signifies that in
nothing is wrong.
Derrida introduces the idea that some event has occurred this event is some sort
break is a moment where the whole way philosophy thought about itself shifted.
That shift or rupture, was when it became possible to think about the
structurality of structure .This is the moment became possible to think about the
idea of structure itself and how every system whether language or philosophy
itself had a structure .The moment when philosophers began to see their
western thought, mainly to push the play of signs to the background .All
theory of language this centre is assigned the function of controlling the endless
differential play of internal relationships while it remaining out side that play.
that it is supposed to control the structure and at the same time is not part of it.
The absence of the transcendental signified expands the scope of the domain of
All the structures depend on two aspects .they are the relationships of
defines its essential nature; this principle is seen in the wholeness of the
constituent parts .But the parts taken separately does not give its wholeness.
The wholeness of the building cannot be identified with any of its individual
something is fully present when it is stable and fixed, not provisional and
mobile. Play is the disruption of presence. There can be two attitudes towards
the idea of play. One is you can mourn for the loss of fixity of meaning or
Bricolage
showing there is play in the system, Derrida says we have two choices. One is
that you can throw out the whole structure as no good. The other option is to
keep using the structure and recognize that it is flawed. This means to stop
attributing truth value to structure or system, but rather to see that system as
system, as a construct, as something built around a central idea, even though the
central idea is flawed or even an illusion. Derrida calls this method bricolage.
The person who does it is a bricoleur. This is somebody who does not care
about the purity or stability of the system he uses, but rather uses what is there
to get a particular job done. In philosophical terms I want to talk about a belief
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lot of people believe in, I dont assume that God refers to an actual being.
Bricolage does not worry about the coherence of the words or ideas it uses.
structure is. He uses the metaphor of the centre in his definition of a structure.
from centered to decentred or centre less structures. There are no fixed points or
decentred. All we have is free play. In other words Derrida rejects the