What Cannot Be Deconstructed? Truth

Piotr Kozak

doi:10.21697/spch.2022.58.A.14

Published: 2022-12-31

Vol. 58 No. 2 (2022)

What Cannot Be Deconstructed? Truth

Piotr Kozak

Studia Philosophiae Christianae

Section: Papers

https://doi.org/10.21697/spch.2022.58.A.14

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.

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Received: 19/10/2022. Reviewed: 13/12/2022. Accepted: 20/12/2022.

Keywords:

deconstruction, truth, Jacques Derrida, Willard Van Orman Quine

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Kozak, P. (2022). What Cannot Be Deconstructed? Truth. Studia Philosophiae Christianae, 58(2), 129–136. https://doi.org/10.21697/spch.2022.58.A.14

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