What Cannot Be Deconstructed? Truth

• Authors: Piotr Kozak

Abstracts

EN

In this paper, I discuss the interpretation of the method of deconstruction in David J. Gunkel’s Deconstruction (MIT Press 2021). I focus on the relationship between deconstruction and truth. I hold that the concept of truth is indispensable for deconstruction since truth introduces correctness conditions for the deconstructive method. However, I claim that truth, being essential and primitive for deconstruction, is fundamentally inaccessible for being analyzed by the latter.

Keywords

EN

deconstruction; truth; Jacques Derrida; Willard Van Orman Quine

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Studia Philosophiae Christianae
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 58
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 129-136

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Piotr Kozak

• Uniwersytet w Białymstoku, Instytut Filozofii -

• https://orcid.org/0000000197344640

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Identifiers

DOI

10.21697/spch.2022.58.A.14

Biblioteka Nauki

22769257