Reflection of Derrida Reframed

Reflection of Derrida Reframed

This is the first time that I get to know Derrida’s theory. He is the most critical philosopher in France since 1960s after Roland Bathers. I have read Roland Bather’s Camera Lucida few weeks ago. His idea about photo such as “stadium” and “punctum” is quite interesting. Go back to the Derrida, he is a founder of “deconstruction” which brought a huge mind bandwagon in the Europe. According to this book, the author brings up a question at the beginning, “What is paragon?” It’s outside or beyond of the work, but it can be the part of the work. The essential part of the critique of structuralism is duality which means everything have one directions either inside or outside, soul or physic body, nature or phenomenon, etc. The former usually is way more important than the latter. But Derrida is sort of blur this boundary. He takes a frame as an example, frame can be the part of the art, it is important, in some way, it is more valuable than art itself. His is attempting to use this new type of reading and thinking way to subvert history for a variety of binary opposition in order to launch powerful critique of traditional western philosophy.