Derridean

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1. alternativeAlternative form of Derridan.

plural Derrideans

1. alternativeAlternative form of Derridan.

   Heidegger begins by “destructing” (what the Derrideans prefer to call “deconstructing”) the entire Western ontotheological tradition.

   1978, Leonard Orr, “Bibliography”, in Existentialism and Phenomenology: A Guide for Research, Troy, N.Y.: The Whitston Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 75

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   [H]e [Derrida] has also gone to extraordinary lengths to provide his readers (and his students, here and in France) with a set of what I would call counterconcepts. The main thing claimed by the Derrideans for these words, and indeed about his deconstructive method, is that they are not reducible to a limited semantic lexicon.

   1978 summer, Edward W[adie] Said, “The Problem of Textuality: Two Exemplary Positions”, in Critical Inquiry, volume 4, number 4, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC

   The Derrideans, for their part, and I think to their ultimate polemical disadvantage, have delighted in portraying the traditionalists as weaklings in hurried retreat (Hartman describes it as “panic”) from the master’s hazardous and difficult message.

   1980, Frank Lentricchia, “History or the Abyss: Poststructuralism”, in After the New Criticism, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, part I (A Critical Thematics, 1957–77), page 160