An Exchange on Deconstruction and History
1979; Duke University Press; Volume: 8; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/303139
ISSN1527-2141
AutoresEugenio Danato, Edward W. Said,
Tópico(s)Samuel Beckett and Modernism
ResumoEdward Said: I'm sorry, I'm not sure that I can be as brief as you would like, because I have a number of things to say on what both of the speakers have said. I think these things are important for the general discussion of critical theory that we have been having here. Now, as you know, I have a great admiration for both of your work, and certainly I find absolutely nothing to disagree with on what you said about Flaubert and the whole question of the end of history as you discussed it, Eugenio. But let me preface what I have to say with one comment: that the notion of deconstruction is not a Derridean idea exclusively, that is to say-if you were to go before Derrida to Marx, for example, who in the Eighteenth Brumaire refers to the weapons of criticism, and before him, to Vico and so on, right back to Aristotle-there is an activity called criticism which exactly exists to use intellectual means to understand what it is texts are saying, what they are not saying, what they are doing. So, rather than
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