The phallogocentric argument is premised on the claim that modern Western culture has been, and continues to be, both culturally and intellectually subjugated by " logocentrism " and " phallocentrism ".
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This text is also a critique of logocentrism and phallogocentrism, because it de-prioritizes the masculine form of reason traditionally associated with rhetoric, having much in common with Jacques Derrida's earlier thought.
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This " logocentrism, " Derrida argues, creates " marked " or hierarchized binary oppositions that have an effect on everything from our conception of speech's relation to writing to our understanding of racial difference.
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And he argues that politically correct theories, which denounce rationality as " logocentrism " and classics of Western literature as " Eurocentric, " have led to a relativism that would deny the very existence of objective truth.
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Logocentrism is the term Derrida uses to refer to the philosophy of determinateness, while phallocentrism is the term he uses to describe the way logocentrism itself has been genderized by a " masculinist ( phallic ) " and " patriarchal " agenda.
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Logocentrism is the term Derrida uses to refer to the philosophy of determinateness, while phallocentrism is the term he uses to describe the way logocentrism itself has been genderized by a " masculinist ( phallic ) " and " patriarchal " agenda.
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Modernism, with its desire to regain some kind of lost presence, also resists post-structuralist thought; whereas Post-modernism accepts the loss ( the loss of being as presence ) and steps beyond the limitations of logocentrism.
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Constructed in opposition to the ancient and long-running bias of logocentrism, the privileging of the spoken word over writing presumed to be the foundation for authentic ideas, reason, and even reality, Denson s authority of authorship is a model of the shifting but interlinking appeals made by an author to receive the reader s consent.
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Instead of answering the questions, Morris has written an elaborate, comically absurd, satirical narrative that in many ways epitomizes the " only possible response " to criticism that had become fashionable in the so-called " demise of criticism " that some writers of the 1980s and 1990s heralded following the " deconstruction of logocentrism " postulated by the post-structuralist theorist Jacques Derrida.
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For example, we give superiority to life rather than death . This suggests that the cultural setting a reader is a part of may influence their interpretation of a work of literature; only one concept, from the binary opposition, is ready, in our mind, to be privileged and the other one is usually put aside as having the second priority . He reached this conclusion by giving a name to the shared western unconsciousness for a preferred binary concept-logocentrism.
