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Levi Strauss Modern Criticism
1,512 wordsStructure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences (Derrida, 1978: 278 293) may be read as the document of an event, although Derrida actually commences the essay with a reservation regarding the word event, as it entails a meaning which it is precisely the function of structural or structuralist thought to reduce or suspect (278). This, I infer, refers to the emphasis within structuralist discourse on the synchronous analysis of systems and relations within them, as opposed to a di...
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Piss Christ Paradoxes Of Aesthetics
1,371 words... s that we rightfully hold dear... (51) On the other hand, they cannot deny that the symbolic effect of blasphemy is in fact entirely mediated by the cultural and contextual reception of the offending image, which end up constructing the image in the minds of its readers as either 'work of art', 'act of blasphemy', 'tedious self-indulgence' or any number of interpretations, all finally equally valid in an era of liberal capitalism: This notion of "the image itself" is a major misunderstanding...
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Asher Lev Chaim Potok
2,672 wordsChaim Potok Chaim Potok, arguably the most powerful writer of modern Judaism, was born on February 17, 1929, in the Bronx of New York to Benjamin and Mollie Potok. At age 8, Chaim Potok showed talent in the realm of drawing and art. His father and teachers of the Talmud, a compilation of Jewish law, greatly discourage him from pursuing art. This was because it was considered nothing more than a waste at best and breaking the commandment? thou shalt not make any graven image? at the worst. Eventu...
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Gayatri Cahkravorty Spivak Christopher Norris Deconstruction Derrida
3,153 wordsDeconstruction Is Accused Of Privileging Textuality At Deconstruction Is Accused Of Privileging Textuality At The Expense Of The Real World. When any critical stance reduced to its core principles (especially when undermined by the less spectacular efforts of its practitioners) it becomes easy to caricature. Liberal Humanism can be painted as woefully na? ve and with no redeeming features, whilst psychoanalysis can be mocked as the? hunt for the phallus? and Marxism is an a = b, base / superstru...
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Levi Strauss Modern Criticism
1,548 wordsStructure, Sign And Play In The Discourse Structure, Sign And Play In The Discourse Of The Human Sciences: Review? Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences? (Derrida, 1978: 278? 293) may be read as the document of an event, although Derrida actually commences the essay with a reservation regarding the word? event? , as it entails a meaning? which it is precisely the function of structural? or structuralist? thought to reduce or suspect? (278). This, I infer, refers to the ...
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