Derrida - defining deconstruction

"I don't know who's going to be watching this, and I especially hope the editor of this video doesn't abruptly switch between subtitles and VO, making it unclear whether the narrator's voice is a translation, paraphrase, a riff, or what..."

Why ask a question just to speak over the response?

The first part before he was voiced over was all we needed. In response to the question, he began deconstructing the question itself, including the set-up in which it was asked. If only he continued in that vein, it would have been a perfect answer.

This was interesting as long as Derrida was speaking. Once the woman starts talking over him, I turned it off.

Fuck this, i'm gonna watch toy story

When he said in the first 22 seconds of the video, “Before answering the question, I want to make a preliminary remark…” gives you a hint as to what deconstruction is

It's hard enugh to understand Derida in the first place, without having loud new agy music drowning over a dubbed over voice finishing his statement. Thumbs down, say I.

This is such a brilliant clip, every time I watch it I find it to yield more fruits. I love this because he begins to deconstruct as he tries to explain the deconstructive strategy(I won't say method), by clearing out how this question appears and its predicate assumptions and pre-conditions for the question. Then he elaborates on what deconstruction does i.e show natural binaries to be actually arbitrary. This is true Derridian style on deconstructing as I explains the very act of deconstructing

I would have really loved to hear Derrida continue to speak here. Dang. Thought I found a gem.

Why is this man respected?

explaining deconstruction without first getting a thorough introduction to metaphysics - the hardened tradition of ontology - is academic suicide, since deconstruction is always pr. definition the deconstruction of metaphysics. Getting to know Deconstruction and Derrida has to be done through Heidegger and his concepts of Thinking and Destruktion (maybe even Husserl's Abbau); that makes it a hell lot easier, even though it will never be easy. After many years I am still having a hard time understanding deconstruction, but it is very fruitfull as a process - the whole history of philosophy is reopened. Good luck. 

description should be "Derrida begins to perfectly define deconstruction--until the narrator decides to play her synth over him."

I've always wondered how philosophers go about their lives and interviews.

Googled what Chomsky and Harris meant when they said they couldn't understand a single sentence of this word salad, wasn't disappointed.

I still cant figure out where the substance is to this man

He also clearly said, laughing, that deconstruction is the science of the impossible. I guess he said the same thing about his utopian work about circumsition. He knew , alongside most french thinkers, about the limitations of the english language and the impossiblity to translate concepts in a propper way. English language as a barricade no other language can cross.

I came to this video to research the concept of deconstruction. I still don't really know what the concept of deconstruction it😩

Pure evil.

i think Richard Feynman did the same thing when somebody asked him why magnets repel each other

@Neondub What is your background in philosophy (just curious)? Analytical primarily?