Derridean

English

Etymology

From Derrida +‎ -ean.

Adjective

Derridean (comparative more Derridean, superlative most Derridean)

  1. Alternative form of Derridan.

Noun

Derridean (plural Derrideans)

  1. Alternative form of Derridan.
    • 1978, Leonard Orr, “Bibliography”, in Existentialism and Phenomenology: A Guide for Research, Troy, N.Y.: The Whitston Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 75:
      Heidegger begins by “destructing” (what the Derrideans prefer to call “deconstructing”) the entire Western ontotheological tradition.
    • 1978 summer, Edward W[adie] Said, “The Problem of Textuality: Two Exemplary Positions”, in Critical Inquiry, volume 4, number 4, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
      [H]e [Derrida] has also gone to extraordinary lengths to provide his readers (and his students, here and in France) with a set of what I would call counterconcepts. The main thing claimed by the Derrideans for these words, and indeed about his deconstructive method, is that they are not reducible to a limited semantic lexicon.
    • 1980, Frank Lentricchia, “History or the Abyss: Poststructuralism”, in After the New Criticism, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, part I (A Critical Thematics, 1957–77), page 160:
      The Derrideans, for their part, and I think to their ultimate polemical disadvantage, have delighted in portraying the traditionalists as weaklings in hurried retreat (Hartman describes it as “panic”) from the master’s hazardous and difficult message.

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