Logocentrism is a term coined by the German philosopher Ludwig Klages in the 1920s. It refers to the tradition of `Western` science and philosophy that situates the logos, ‘the word’ or the ‘act of speech’, as epistemologically superior in a system, or structure, in which we may only know, or be present in, the world by way of a logocent.....
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belief that meaning derives from the analysis of words and symbols
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(from the article `deconstruction`) Derrida contends that the opposition between speech and writing is a manifestation of the `logocentrism` of Western culture—i.e., the general ... ...`oppositions,` inherent in philosophical thinking since the time of the ancient Greeks. In Derrida`s view, these oppositions res...
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(lit. 'word-centered') Jacques Derrida's term for a tendency to privilege thinking based on a desire
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