Not sure what happened here but it should have said Pragmatic Anthropology originates with Kant's last lectures. Foucault translated this as his minor thesis (in French) with an introduction, a shortened version of which is published in English. Kant argued against the centring of the human in the moral universe and sought to separate the human from the metaphysical and spiritual. This reinvestment in epistemology inspired Foucault, and Kant's focus on language may also have inspired Derrida, but I don't see a direct connection to deconstruction.This work is probably the root of Foucault's critique of structuralism and functionalist anthropology.
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Derrida's theory is a poststructuralist approach , which rejects Saussurean structuralism . Derrida has delineated the theory of the deconstruction of discourse, and and realities . He seriously questions the idea of a an objective reducible quantifiable central univocal meaning. He believes there is no explicit relationship between signifier and signified. and there are unlimited number of meanings moving among signifiers. In pragmatics . the ways in which context contributes to meaning are elaborated on . It encompasses speech act theory, implicatures, entailments, cultural particularities , contextual parameters, and other approaches to language .It illustrates how the transmission of meaning depends not only on structural and linguistic knowledge of the speakers and listeners, but also on the context of the utterance, any background knowledge , schmeata, presuppostions, inferencing, disambugations, etc. It is intimately related to Derrida's notion of deconstruction since meaning is interpreted based on idiosyncratic specificities of the situation and the presuppostions made by the speakers/ writers as well as listeners'/readers' inferences based upon their background information, cultural ethnic backgrounds, mental schamata which are culturally contextually shaped. This approach to discourse is inextricably tied up with Non-essentialism as a philosophical approach which states that for any concept or entity, there are no specific traits or qualities which entities or concepts of that kind need to own. This , I believe , is a deconstructiist way of deciphering the meaning a nonunified objective meaning or reality , which is simply not '' out there'' , It is deconstructed and reconstructed by individual based on a myriad of personal cultural ethnic specifications .
hi stephen linstead i hav downloaded the pragmatic anthropology v n hav got ur answer...thanx a lot for ur mutual reply still thinkin may be deconstruction came out of Husserl's phenomenology and Heidegger's being and time too...may be as a anti thesis out of pragmatic anthropology too although connections are hardly visible
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