Understanding Derrida, Deconstruction & Of Grammatology 

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This has to be the best introduction to Derrida I've ever seen. Amazing production quality, clear and concise explanations of the central concepts, and very helpful graphics. Your channel really deserves to become huge. I'm looking forward to watching your other videos.

I took classes under a professor whose PhD advisor was Derrida (at Ecole Normal Superior, I believe). He says that on the day he had to defend his dissertation, Derrida instead decided to use the event as an opportunity to deconstruct his student/my professor. The professor still seemed traumatized by the experience when he recalled it to us. He has become an accomplished philosopher in his own right, as an expert on Heidegger, Dasein, etc. - taking his classes was one of the highlights of my college experience.

You described what I paid a college professor thousands of dollars to teach me for free! This is fairy accurate and touches almost all main points. Videos like this are why i love RU-vid based education. Please do another one maybe for those who have read a few of Darrida's texts, maybe?

> "inspired by the writings of ONE MAN" > shows a book written by two men

What I liked best is the lower pace of speech that enabled me to grasp most of the aspects mentioned. This is such a wonderful summary! Thank you!

I really appreciate the amount of work put into this video. The graphics and film montages had really made the philosophical concepts accessible to viewers and understandable. Always wanted to get my head around Derrida. Thank you for giving me a foothold and I'm sure the same sentiment is felt by other viewers.

Really great work with this one. Honest, calm, well tought-out artwork, great quotes, deep enough. Quite superb actually. Thanks.

This video is still one of the greatest gifts someone interested in the more modern thinkers may have. In a sense, you can can split your understanding of language before and after Derrida and this is the best introduction you can have. Thank you, mate. Your work is incredible!

This video is, in a large part responsible for the "basic understanding" of Derrida's philosophical concepts, theories and the amazingly insightful, reality changing concept of Deconstruction, and has afforded me an opportunity to increase my conceptualizations of my reality, and or realities. Fantastic video! Thank You! Keep pushing forward!

The music is nice, it's not distracting at all, and actually helps me focus on the words oddly. I'm curious why there is so much disdain?

Very clear and accessible. I liked the moderate to slow pace of it, being pretty slow myself. I am not in general a great fan of background music, but the music here was an exception. I found it relaxing and inobtrusive. More of these please!

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what an amazing video! as someone new to derrida, this begins to explain the basic premise of his ideas. Thank you

hello, i am an undergrad eng major, and derrida's a part of our intro to literary theory paper. this video was incredibly helpful, and thought provoking. the video clips that you chose to supplement the text with really brought me to newer ideas that will be immensely rewarding in my reading, of derrida and otherwise. i am so happy that your channel exists! best of luck with everything. hope you have a wonderful day.

Currently writing a thesis on Derrida, and his theory- your video does a great job explaining Derrida’s philosophy, and I couldn’t agree more with your stance on archi-writing, as one who has already read grammatology- this video serves as a wonderful introductory step for those who are either curious about deconstruction, or literary criticism as a whole! Wonderful video. :)

your visuals here really help here instead of distract like so many other videos I've seen on this site, wonderful work here

THANK YOU. WE'RE READING OF GRAMMATOLOGY FOR MY CLASS AND I COULDN'T MAKE HEADS OR TAILS OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING.

Videos like those should be considered as valid bibliography for thesis and academic research !! After a week trying to understand Derida's philosphy for my thesis framework, I end up watching this and matching all my thoughts. THANK YOU from Spain!

If anyone wants to know more about what Derrida means by a sign / trace, definitely check out some Levinas!

Thank you, I was getting clumsy with Derrida's theories this video gave me crisp points and it touches everywhere as well..

Thanks for these videos, very helpful for an English Major to grasp the concepts of Deconstruction and more. It's also nice to get the full history on these theories.

A simple observation: both speaking and writing have pros and cons. Conversations "theoretically" allow for a vigorous trade of back-and-forth that provides participants the opportunity to hone in on a particular point and make sure they are "on the same page". But I find that quite often there are all manner of breaks in conversation that occur, which end up derailing the flow of discussion and lead to very little actual "progress" in the process of communication. Writing, on the other hand, while it doesn't allow for "receiver" interruptions for the sake of gaining clarity, for that very reason also provides a vehicle for presenting extended coherent material without interruption. Both are necessary, imo, as both together contribute to a fuller exchange of ideas.

Oh, god yes, thank you for this succinct introduction to Derrida - his work sounds like it is of... deep personal relevance to myself, and I look forward to circulating this video to others as well.

Bro... this is such a great introduction to so many difficult concepts, but you make it very easy to understand. Great work.

You make complex thought clear without becoming simplistic. Thank you.

very good. A lot of info was packed into this short video, which I listened to 3 times. Will share.

This was a phenomenal introduction. Clear, including the necessary context, and interesting.

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Thank you for your time and effort. Your summation has been proven helpful to those that struggle with Derrida and Deconstruction. Cheers.

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love your voice! Can listen to you for hours really!! Keep up the good work

Explained this way better than my college prof, with such thoughtfulness too

Excellent video on Derrida! Many of the things my brother talked about to me during his Uni education came back in this video, bravo :D

Very informative, clearly presented, and well designed video. Thank you.

Very helpful to grasp the main veins of the philosophy and the way of looking at it. Thank you!

That's a very clear introduction to a methodology of reading which should be the normal way of doing it, in order not to be deceived in politics, religion, etc... It's the real deal. Thanks.

Thank you for the upload :). This is a great exposition on Derrida and the importance of his work! The graphics add a great deal of clarity, and it’s a brilliant and concise way of explaining ideas that are notoriously abstract and hard to define.

Masterpiece! More of these please. Peace and love from Indonesia.

I still have trouble understanding "differance" and "trace".

This is by far the best explanation of Derrida I have come across and the only one that actually helps me understand his books. You have a real talent. Thank you so much for sharing this.

Very good video, thanks for this I’m reading a book about Giorgio Agamben and he is deeply connected to Derrida. I love your videos.

Wow, amazing job on both the explanation and the editing!

Thank you for your videos! Especially thank you for your reading suggestion on "introducing Derrida, a graphic guide". It really clarified things well!! Thank you again! :))

This is incredibly helpful. Thank you!

THANK YOU. YOU JUST SAVED MY LIFE FOR MY THEORY FINAL EXAM.

Great content, refreshing take on Derrida. Inspired.

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The soothing music really made this video a joy to watch, thank you!

Quite impressive and fundamental.would love to have more details.

I was doing homework--or avoiding it by tearing apart the kitchen and your videos seem to help with a deeper understanding of material I don't grok well. The kids being the helpful souls that they are, were moving their body parts as if they were indeed moving towards successful "of course we are working" motions, until your video came up. Auto-play being what it is.... Thanks for being something even an 8 year old who doesn't pay attention to much, enjoyed along with her 10 year old sister, though I spent the next hour or so on my own.

great video and production, thanks for making this.

Great video and great site. Thank you for breaking down Deconstruction

Very interesting and clearly expressed!. Interesting how both philosophers relied on both SPEECH and WRITING ✍️ in order to relay their message, and as profound as it sounds, their worldview can easily lead to chaos.

Super helpful! Thank you for making such an informative video on Derrida

Beautifully described, you certainly have a poetic flow to your video and still manage to be concise

I am an Mphil in Comparative Literature and I approve your message!

I love the distinctly postmodernist argument that while postmodernist writing is, "on the surface," forbiddingly and pretentiously abstruse, at a deep level it embodies nothing but a body of simple truisms of common sense (e.g. "power relies on rhetoric," "institutions use language") that everybody already knew anyway.

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Good job. This helps me understand.

It's really good explanation of deconstruction of Jacques Derrida using pictures and videos...

This is an amazingly put together video, concise and with a perfect amount of context for the study of Derrida, thank you for the help!

I'm just starting to dive into philosophy, and I have to admit this was tough to grasp at times. Nontheless I thank you for such an amazing explanation, I'm definitely going to binge watch your channel. Keep spreading knowledge my man!

Interesting individual. I do not agree with his thinking but interesting how the human mind can reach different understanding of what value is on all world aspects

This is such a well made video

Thank you for this very clear introduction in Derrida. The link about Différance doesn't work can you maybe update it?

Whenever I listen to these sort of basic explanations I totally understand them but they don't help me understand Derrida's actual writing one bit. I just wish there was some resource that went through any of derrida's texts and explained what he was trying to say. Maybe thats too much to ask of the world.

Interesting Video I struggled a lot going in this Derridian way of philosophy. This video is very helpful to understand his way of thinking.

I have stumbled upon this channel looking for the person who inspired "Martin Heidegger" and more clarity pertaining to his landmark book {Being and Time (1927}. So far, this video tied up many loose ends and I will be following your future work. Thanks so much... :)

Love your work!

This was a very insightful video. I've also seen your video on Habermas, who had disputes with Derrida before they reconciled later on (though not in philosophical terms, as far as I'm aware). Could you do a video mediating the positions of communicative action and deconstruction? I think that topic is quite fascinating, though I've yet to read into the post-structuralist side of things.

This is an amazing video. Brilliant, really. Thanks 🙏🏽

Great summary, thanks!

Can u do a video on Hannah Arendt?

Wonderful, absolutely wonderful.

This video was rewarding. I'm thirsting for one of those books.

thank you for explaining that, and for the reading list

great video, thank you learnt loads about stuff I thoiught I knew,

AMAZING VIDEO!

Great Video! This channel always produces great content, takes lots of skills and hard work edit and make this stuff! For the sake of learning, I'm going to try to form some propositions (in summary) from what I gathered about Derrida and my personal criticisms. (If anyone has anything to comment, please do so.) It seems as though Derrida is noticing the distinction of the symbol/symbolized (I find this language easier to use that signifier and signified), and just taking language to its logical conclusion. That since propositional truths, such as all bachelors are unmarried, are true only given the conventional meanings of the words "bachelors" and "unmarried" (and of course all the other words), that truth can be manipulated. And deconstruction is merely the explication of the meanings of the words within the definition of the words, and the infinte regress that follows it. Obviously, there is no objective reference point for the meanings of words. This is self-evident. The reference point we use for words, is a conventional one, as a means to an end - to relay the meaning we are trying to communicate. Derrida and the postmodernists seem to think that the meaning, is entirely found in the reader of the words, not the writer of the words. This I just cannot accept. Because if it is the case, then why does Derrida think before using words? Or try to use the right words? You cannot escape making truth claims either, as the conclusion that we have no epistemological access to objective knowledge, is predicated on the premises that led to the conclusion... to be true. Just my 2 cents, I always find it much easier to think, remember, and understand what I learn when I write or comment about it. Great video!

This video is in all aspects very well-made

Great work, mate

10:13 - where is this footage from? It's beautiful...

Thank you so much!

I absolutely love your work, i have just one request, please provide transcript of the video.

Beautifully articulated

The geometry of the illustrations accompanying the narration is fascinating. I see naturally occurring forms constantly emerging from the philosophy. Is everything really just math?

phenomenal job

Beautifully told video-story.

First of all, thank you for this instructive content, I am really grateful to watch it. Could you please help me ? I'm trying to figure out the source of Derrida's quote at [01:25], in which context did he say that ? kind regards

Amazing video. I thank you for it

THIS video is full of RICH CONTENT, amazing QUOTES

Jordan Peterson is where I stumbled across this Post Modernist philosopher. Over discord, I heard the name that one said my ideas reminded him of, and to continue, this is where I am, questioning life, deconstruction, language, and the interpersonal.

Wonderful video and channel!

As much as I think Derrida is a sophist, this video is absolutely amazing. Will definitely be checking out the reading list. You deserve many, many times the subscriber base you currently have. Keep it up!!

Fantastic introduction

Guys, does someone have a pdf version of "On Deconstruction"? I'm starting to believe that no one translated the actual work, but that can't be true... Can it? :(