Derrida. Dekonstrukcja i jej konsekwencje

The purpose of deconstruction is not an understanding of the content of the text in the ordinary sense of the word, but to get to the bottom of everything that the text does not speak about explicitly, and thanks to it, it can lay claim to the truth. While speaking of signs which are rooted in metaphysics, Derrida, in fact, means precisely that the accepted tacit assumption that the text tells us something about the world, and that our task while reading the text is to bring out all there is in it that is directly related to real objects. That assumption can be accepted, and it may determine the way of reading the text only while going through a series of rhetorical procedures including the use of hierarchical conceptual oppositions, often possessing the evaluative character, or ignoring certain contents. Remaining outside the discourse and viewing it as a historical product, deconstruction should determine what and why has been relegated in that discourse to the margins and doomed to oblivion. The deconstructed text turns out to be another myth, moreover, the internally contradictory myth because in its innermost layer, which has just been revealed by deconstruction, denying it what it is trying to express itself.