But it was the "ontology" of Husserl and Heidegger, to which Derrida reacted during this early period,and which he sought to de-Teutonize in order to accomodate the new forms of cultural and social-psychological critique that had emerged with figures like figures like Louis Althusser, Julia Kristeva, and Jacques Lacan and to re-invigorate the deeply embedded tradition of structural linguistics, invented by Ferdinand de Saussure, in France as central to philosophy.
Most of what we know as "deconstruction" had this largely linguistic, neo-Marxist, anti-phenomenological, a-theological origin. As a footnote it is highly ironic that what in the past decade has become known to theologians as "postmodernism" tends (with the exception perhaps of Žižek) tends to be highly idealistic, phenomenological, anti-linguistic, anti-psychological, and a-political.
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I don't know that Derrida ever endorsed this or similar definition of Postmodern. The Postmodern, as characterized culturally by Lyotard, or aesthetically by Fred Jameson, was useful only in so far as it allowed (mostly) academicians to frame a particular problematic in temporal terms. Unfortunately, this usefulness also simultaneously precipitated its theoretical undoing, evidenced in that one could find the "postmodernism" throughout history, in Plato, in pre-postmodern artworks, etc. etc. What had been missed was that the so-called postmodern was not so much a symptom or character particular to a historical epoch or episteme, but an effect produced when critics looked at a problem in a particular way. Furthermore, this way "way of seeing" does not necessarily belong to an epoch. It is part of the problematic of representation. Hegel work represents and tried to grapple with this problematic in the way that his trinities are often both synchronic and diachronic structures. The American Charles S. Peirce, a reader of Hegel, recognized that his own trinary frameworks needed to be recursive and playful rather than static.
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