Jacques Derrida et la question de l’identité
Jacques Derrida and the Issue of Identity

Summary/Abstract: Postmodern ideologies have one and the same objective: grasping man in his elusiveness and in his everyday happenings.A thinker like Jacques Derrida, who is one of the leaders of deconstruction, considers that our epoch signals the end of rationality. Deconstruction is defined as the ensemble of techniques and strategies used by Derrida to demonstrate, split and shift any universal logic. By the mechanism of différance, the human being gets out of any originating border (big, founding narratives), and only traces remain. Deconstruction is incapable of thinking the world otherwise than as crumbling, this image resulting from the dissolution of the universal, of reason and the subject himself. Such an approach to identity is in accordance with contemporary globalization, which requires human mobility and flexibility.

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