"Deconstruction in a Nutshell" Quotes

Deconstruction is not a method, nor a toolkit, but rather a way of thinking about the structures that compose our understanding.

To deconstruct is not to destroy, but to open a text to its own possibilities and internal tensions.

Every text is inhabited by its own ghosts, presences that both enable and unsettle meaning.

The center is not the center, and every origin is already complicated by what it excludes.

Hospitality must always be open to the unforeseen, to the other whose arrival we cannot predict.

Justice is not a calculable law but the coming of the event, a demand that exceeds determination.

To affirm difference is not simply to tolerate but to welcome what resists assimilation.

There is no outside-text; everything is woven into the fabric of language and context.

A promise is always haunted by the risk of non-fulfillment, yet it is this risk that gives it its force.

The decision worthy of the name is never programmed; it is always the leap into the unknown.