Talk:Deconstruction/to do

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This is a brief review of issues behind the rewrite tag and a list of tasks necessary to the rewrite.

• • • • Please note the term "deconstruction" has come into a second use: describing the systematic hand and mechanical dis-assembly of buildings to reuse their contents.****

The article in its current form is a patchwork of occasionally contradictory points which does not attempt general coherence and therefore poorly represents the subject matter and utterly fails to provide a general overview for the benefit of the vast majority of readers.

The list below is a first cut to get discussion rolling on how to put together a rewrite. Let's discuss it to develop its contents into an agreed revision plan. Please do not alter the list without prior discussion on the talk page.

The following is a draft proposal to guide a complete revision of the entry:

• determine what content in the current article merits separate entries to provide adequate exposition
• cull content that requires such exposition into separate articles
• settle on a general introduction deconstruction which should be:
  • not reductionist
  • allow an understanding of its specificity vis-a-vis its limits and volubility
  • tie the former to correlative elaborations with respect to the philosophical tradition
  • argue how deconstruction relates to literature and literary criticism
  • argue how deconstruction generally relates to the humanities and social sciences (refiguring the death/hegemony of philosophy)
  • argue how deconstruction approaches the institutions of philosophy and teaching generally
• take into account differences in deconstruction chez Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Lyotard, Lacoue-Labarthe, and de Man (I have chosen these rather deliberately because of strong secondary literature on these figures; others may add to this list where such support can be tapped)
• elaborate an account of the reception of deconstruction into English-language scholarship
• explain how deconstruction has attempted to address geophilosophy and troubled national/linguistic delineation of philosophical traditions and communities
• explain why and how the notion of translation has been deployed in deconstruction and the significance of Derrida's definition of plus d'un langue
• set aside commonplaces identifying deconstruction too closely with continental philosophy, postmodernism, and poststructuralism by demonstrating ties to analytic philosophy (e.g. Austin and speech act theory) and elaborating on the ties between deconstruction and structuralism
• identify what influences on deconstruction are considered indispensable rather than important
  • Bennington's claim that Freud and Heidegger are the two such influences for Derrida
  • lay out the cases for whether Heidegger is an influence on deconstruction or is already deconstruction

As this content is developed it may be broken out into separate entries.

Once we decide what's on the list, we can decide how to collaborate on it. I'd like to have someone volunteer to be an editor to help clean up composition.