Derridean
- noun
- /ˌdɛrɪˈdiːən/
- Literature
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derridiano
- In her lectures, the professor presented Derridean concepts that challenge traditional views of language and meaning.
- Derridean deconstruction
Examples
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One should be able to question Derrida and the Derrideans' terms and inferences, to ask whether his conclusions are true or not.
Academic text (2000) -
But the Derridean nature of truth is not at all natural.
Academic text (1992) -
In Derridean terms, this appears to be a logocentric privileging of speech over writing.
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Arguments against the definition of a text as an unstable play of semantic/semiotic differences attack the Derridean definition of the text as such.
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In a Derridean world, linear arguments are not rigorous; they're naive.
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The Derridean crisis of the supplement parallels the Girardian crisis of distinctions.
Academic text (2001) -
Still other texts might benefit from a Derridean reading—and so forth.
Academic text (2005) -
Traditional conceptions of truth and inference broke down into Derridean, Foucauldian, and Lacanian conceptions, each with its own dramaturgy.
Academic text (2000) -
In the essay "Semiotics and Art History," for example, Mieke Bal and Norman Bryson offered a Derridean argument based on the principle that "symbolic interpretation... always underlies other kinds of interpretation." 2
Academic text (1994) -
As a devoted Derridean, he often analyzes texts through the lens of deconstruction to reveal hidden meanings.
Synonyms
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A person who studies texts to find hidden ideas
Surface Forms
Etymology
A Derridean is someone named after Derrida, like a Freudian is someone who follows Freud. It means a person who follows Derrida's ideas, especially 'deconstruction', the way of reading that looks for many possible meanings in language.