logocentrism

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(Sosyoloji, Toplumbilim) sözmerkezcilik
(Sosyoloji, Toplumbilim) logosantrizm (derrida)
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The analysis of literature, focusing on the words and grammar to the exclusion of context or literary merit
(Felsefe) A distinctly cultural way of understanding. Derrida uses this term frequently to refer to the western cultural way of understanding that, he argues, was instituted by Plato Western logocentrism privileges language over nonverbal communication. Click here to see more., and it privileges speech over witing with a metaphysics of presence . Deconstruction exposes the way in which we must have both sides of the dichotomy (such as writing and speech, or male and female) in order to have the privileged side
A distinctly cultural way of understanding Derrida uses this term frequently to refer to the western cultural way of understanding that, he argues, was instituted by Plato Western logocentrism privileges language over nonverbal communication, and it privileges speech over writing with a metaphysics of presence Deconstruction exposes the way in which we must have both sides of the dichotomy (such as writing and speech, or male and female) in order to have the privileged side
obsession with the word See also: phonocentrism
"In the beginning was the word " Logocentrism is the belief that knowledge is rooted in a primeval language(now lost) given by God to humans God (or some other transcendental signifier: the Idea, the Great Spirit, the Self, etc;) acts a foundation for all our thought, language and action He is the truth whose manifestation is the world He is the foundation for the binaries by which we think: God/Man, spiritual/physical, man/woman, good/evil The first term of the binary is valorized, and a chain of binaries constitutes a hierarchy
a focus on the logos