THEORIES OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS II (ULUSLARARASI İLİŞKİLER KURAMLARI II) - (İNGİLİZCE) Dersi Poststructuralism in IR soru detayı:
SORU:
How did Derrida contribute to poststructuralist thinking?
CEVAP: Derrida, with his work, claimed that no text reflects the reality, that every structure and text (discourse and writing) contain a certain power relationship through dual oppositions and when these are deconstructed, the power relations and the marginalized/excluded ones can be revealed. Derrida designed deconstruction as a method of analysis based on the assumption that nothing in the text is random. Each text contains power relations. Thus, deconstruction focuses on power relations, contradictions, inconsistencies in a given text. Unlike structuralists, Derrida emphasized that the meaning can not be fixed and controlled. He withdraws the concession that is given to first term of binary opposition such as good/evil, sovereignty/anarchy. By which a hierarchy is reversed, Derrida gives an opportunity to re-read the text over the second term.
Derrida, with his work, claimed that no text reflects the reality, that every structure and text (discourse and writing) contain a certain power relationship through dual oppositions and when these are deconstructed, the power relations and the marginalized/excluded ones can be revealed. Derrida designed deconstruction as a method of analysis based on the assumption that nothing in the text is random. Each text contains power relations. Thus, deconstruction focuses on power relations, contradictions, inconsistencies in a given text. Unlike structuralists, Derrida emphasized that the meaning can not be fixed and controlled. He withdraws the concession that is given to first term of binary opposition such as good/evil, sovereignty/anarchy. By which a hierarchy is reversed, Derrida gives an opportunity to re-read the text over the second term.