From structuralism to post-structuralism: Derrida's critique of structuralism as deconstruction

Abstract

In the social sciences, many theories have been put forward for the explanation and understanding of social reality. Each theory reveals several possibilities for the purpose in question, as well as many dead ends or problems. Structuralism occupies an important place in the history of Social Sciences in this sense. On the other hand, post-structuralism is very important both in terms of its connection to structuralism and in terms of the criticism and critical attitude of all Western thought. This article attempts to address the criticism of Jacques Derrida, the founder of structuralist linguistics Saussure and Claude Levi-Strauss, who played an important role in bringing structuralism into the social sciences through anthropology, which is very central to the criticism of structuralism and an entire Western metaphysical tradition.