
Morality, The Lord of the Rings, and Awkward Jokes (Dr. Peter Kreeft) | Ep. 369
Pints With Aquinas
What Is Deconstructionism?
I've been in beautiful situations or have been engaged in beautiful experiences and they think that maybe I've got it wrong. The thing that kind of broke my heart was the fact that it wasn't what I wanted. According to deconstructionism, ordinary words aren't even pointing fingers. Archibald MacLeish's Ars Poetica defines that deconstructionist credo as well as anything. A poem must not mean but be. Nothing means anything. No matter how transcended the experience, it doesn't point to something beyond itself. That's all it is.
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