What Cannot Be Deconstructed? Truth
What Cannot Be Deconstructed? Truth
Author(s): Piotr KozakSubject(s): Epistemology, Ethics / Practical Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
Keywords: deconstruction; truth; Jacques Derrida; Willard Van Orman Quine;
Summary/Abstract: 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.
Journal: Studia Philosophiae Christianae
- Issue Year: 58/2022
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 129-136
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English
