The Missing Step Series
Deconstructing Deconstruction → Recognition of Self
Overall Arc (important to keep in mind)
- Destabilize the world
- Destabilize the self
- Destabilize the method (deconstruction itself)
- Turn toward the knower
- Recognize what cannot be removed
- Stabilize in that recognition
Part I — The Breakdown
1. Everything Can Be Questioned
The beginning of intelligence
- Nothing is as solid as it appears
- Identity, meaning, culture → constructed
- Spirit of deconstruction is dominant
Key move of Modernism: Legitimize doubt