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logocentrism, n. Linguistic Philos.|ˌlɒgəʊˈsɛntrɪz(ə)m|
[ad. F. logocentrisme (J. Derrida, 1967, in De la Grammatologie 23); cf. Logos n., *phonocentrism n.]
1. The belief that the rational analysis of text and of its articulation through language is central to the meaning of being; hence, any system of thought in which the analysis of meaning is based upon the analysis of words, symbols, and other external references used to express meaning.
1971S. Heath in J. Kristeva et al. Signs of Times 23 For Derrida it is the very concept of the sign that is the root of the problem, a concept inextricably involved (as its very basis) with a logocentrism characteristic of Western philosophy and of which the reaction to writing is a startlingly revealing syndrome. 1976G. C. Spivak in J. Derrida Of Grammatol. p. lxviii, He [sc. Derrida] relates this phonocentrism to logocentrism—the belief that the first and last things are the Logos, the Word, the Divine Mind, the infinite understanding of God, an infinitely creative subjectivity, and, closer to our time, the self-presence of full self-consciousness. 1977Dædalus Fall 108 Semiotics is the instrument of this revelation because it is the logical culmination of what Jacques Derrida calls the ‘logocentrism’ of Western culture: the rationality which treats meanings as concepts or logical representations that it is the function of signs to express. 1986A. Jefferson in Jefferson & Robey Mod. Lit. Theory (ed. 2) iv. 113 Logocentrism is the term he uses to describe all forms of thought which base themselves on some external point of reference.
2. Hence more generally, concentration upon language or words to the exclusion or detriment of the matters to which they refer. Cf. logocentric a.
1986Brit. Jrnl. Aesthetics Autumn 314 The Crocean could always say..that this is the fault of language (or logocentrism). 1987Listener 1 Oct. 18/3 All this logocentrism, all the ritual..works primarily to drive out all worldly pleasure..from the act of drinking. |