Deconstructionist critics argue that texts are never free from

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UGC NET Paper 2: English 22nd Dec 2018

Answer 1

The correct answer is ‘distortions inherent in the rhetoricity of language’.

Key Points

Deconstruction refers to a set of approaches to understand the relationship between a text and its meaning.
The philosopher Jacques Derrida introduced the concept of deconstruction in his 1967 book Of Grammatology.
The work was inspired by literary theorists like Ferdinand de Saussure and Roland Barthes.
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was a French philosopher, born in Algeria.
He developed the philosophy of deconstruction.
Derrida’s writings have had a remarkable influence on the humanities and social sciences, philosophy, anthropology, historiography, linguistics, psychoanalysis, law, architecture as well as political theory.
Speech and Phenomena (1967) is considered by many critics to be his most important work.
Other notable writings include Of Grammatology (1967), Writing and Difference (1967), and Margins of Philosophy (1972).

Therefore, the correct answer is option 3.