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What is “logocentrism”?

July 8, 2020September 10, 2011 by Pamela Landy

Logocentrism is the habit of assigning truth to words.

Deconstructionists seek to combat logocentrism by deconstructing, or taking apart, texts: exposing hidden presuppositions; revealing texts as essentially indeterminate and unreadable.

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