derridean
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of Derridan.
noun
Alternative form of Derridan.
Example Sentences
- "Heidegger begins by “destructing” (what the Derrideans prefer to call “deconstructing”) the entire Western ontotheological tradition."
- "[H]e [Derrida] has also gone to extraordinary lengths to provide his readers (and his students, here and in France) with a set of what I would call counterconcepts. The main thing claimed by the Derrideans for these words, and indeed about his deconstructive method, is that they are not reducible to a limited semantic lexicon."
- "The Derrideans, for their part, and I think to their ultimate polemical disadvantage, have delighted in portraying the traditionalists as weaklings in hurried retreat (Hartman describes it as “panic”) from the master’s hazardous and difficult message."