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Hermeneutics and Poststructuralism

However remarkable may appear the differences between the various poststructuralist theorists - to the point of refusal of many of them to be called poststructuralist at all - opposing hermeneutics amounts to an indisputable common trait. Acting as the most prominent advocate of the so called representational paradigm, hermeneutics extensively works with the concepts like mind, meaning, subject, history and identity which are the objects of harshest poststructuralist attacks. According to them, the whole hermeneutic digging into the depth of phenomena rests on the metaphysical violence. Instead of trying to reach this hidden kernel, poststructuralists are therefore oriented toward the enabling conditions of phenomena such as, for instance, arche-writing and différance (Derrida) or the archive and the field of discourse (Foucault). But in striving to pin down these all-encompassing frames of reference, they appear to be confronting similar difficulties as did their hermeneutic counterparts. While repeatedly withdrawing into an irreducible «surplus of meaning», materiality, surface and exteriority finally turn out to be as unfathomable categories as ideality, deepness and interiority.

hermeneutics, poststructuralism, metaphysics, Derrida, Foucault

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