Logocentrism

As logocentrism call poststructuralist theories of the rational -centered metaphysics and the Western rationality. Logo -centric thinking is here regarded as the controlling discourse or as a ruling " form of thought ".

Criticism of the logic of identity

Be criticized by this term constructed meanings or ideologically charged meanings that ( etc. soul / body, positive / negative ) to share the reality of identity- logical inverse pairs and as a perspective of evaluation (reference point), the presence of outside variables such as truth, God, transparency, origin, cause, reason, or similar centers and categories of metaphysics claim.

The terms truth and reason are thereby rejected as ideas of truth and essence and as authoritarian, one-dimensional, hierarchical, totalitarian and pluralism hostile. The concepts of metaphysics are considered as an interlocking of relational and on yourself system of metaphors. As designs these metaphors have no real content that would be displayed, and thus meaningful.

Post-structuralist positions

Against this background, for Roland Barthes the Socratic maieutics alone a principle " to drive the other to the extreme disgrace. Contradicting himself " Jacques Derrida speaks of an " imperialism of the Logos ." According to Jean -François Lyotard is in logocentrism "demands from thought to participate in the process of rationalization. Any other way of thinking is condemned, isolated and rejected as irrational "; because " the Logos is not a special case in the infinity of codes: it is the code that puts an end to the infinity; he is the discourse of the enclosure, which the poetic, the para-and anagrammatic puts an end " (Jean Baudrillard ).

Luce Irigaray, "This dominance of the philosophical logos owes itself ... of its assets, all other things due to the economy of the same. " According to Barthes the logocentric thinking trying the principle of " shake off that old specter: logical contradiction. " " Activity / passivity, sun / Moon, culture / nature, day / night, father / mother, head / heart, intelligible / perceptible, logos / pathos ... thinking has always oppositions works ... after dual, hierarchized oppositions " ( Hélène Cixious, cit. according to Kuhn. ).