Source: Foreword to Christine Eber,Christine Kovi (eds.), Women of Chiapas: Making History in Times of Struggle and Hope. (2003) p. xiv
“Almost alone among cognitive-aesthetic movements and strategies of interpretation, deconstruction neither champions any body of past literature or art, nor does it act as vanguard or advocate for any contemporary or incipient school. The New Criticism and T. S. Eliot strove for the revaluation of Metaphysical poetry so as to underwrite, in turn, certain tactics of modenity. Aristotle was advocate for Sophocles. Deconstruction is, intentionally, marginal (a key trope) to all histories of taste and manifestos for innovation.”
Source: Real Presences (1989), II: The Broken Contract, Ch. 7 (p. 117).
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Source: Real Presences (1989), II: The Broken Contract, Ch. 8 (p. 128).

Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), Preface to First Edition, p.x-xi

“Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.”

Source: Real Presences (1989), III: Presences, Ch. 3 (pp. 174-175).

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