0:00 THE ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT…How Do We Justify The Presuppositions Of Economics: Private Property? …No Moral Basis To Protect Private Property From Statism
0:44 Environmentalism…If You Take A Non-Christian Approach To Life, On What Basis Could You Say That We Should Not Abuse Animals?
1:39 THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT…Since It’s A Random Realm You Don’t Produce A Philosophy Or A History Pertaining To Man’s Development …Standards Of Importants, Standards Of Historical Causality All Assume Something More Than Just Molecules In Motion
4:13 THE LITERATURE DEPARTMENT: The Problem Of Deconstruction; This Problem Is Applicable To All Of The Academic Fields.
5:08 Jacques Derrida (French Philosopher, Originator Of Deconstructionism…Structure Sign and Play) …Friedrich Nietzsche
6:27 Deconstructionism’s Main Contention Is That The Meaning Of A Text Is Not Something That Can Be Determined. The Very Notion That Meaning Is A Property Of The Text, Is Itself Mistaken (“Logocentrism”).
6:47 Paul de Man – Asserts That Signs Without Reference (Without Meaning) Make Thematic Interpretation, Problematic. And Thus, Rhetorical Reading Becomes The Project Of The Critic, Who Must Keep In Mind A Conception Of Textuality That See The Text As Self-Destructive, And Thus Impossible To Read
7:15 Paul de Man’s Theory Of Misreadings – In His View A Text Is Literary Only To The Extent That It Encourages Misreadings Of Itself…When A Text Is Densely Rhetorical, It Will Lead To Countless Misreadings
7:32 Paul de Man – Posits The Idea Of Valid & Invalid Misreading Of The Text.
8:20 Descontructive Theory Seeks To Subvert The Binary Structure, Which Sees That Is Inherent To Logocentrism. That Is To Show The Groundlessness Of Any View Of Mimesis, To Demonstrate That All Language, Is Unable To Name The Object Which It Intends.
8:48 Language Is Viewed As A Play Of Differences…Neither A Critic Nor A Text Can Be Under The Subjection Of Anything That Would Dominate…Cannot Be Subjected To The Author To A Concept Of Meaning, To The Notion Of Archetype, Or Historical Forces.
9:35 Deconstruction, According To Its Advocates, Is Not Something Added To The Text, The Deconstructionist Says This Is The Text(The Text Deconstructs Itself). Because The Text Is Always The Story Of The Problem Of Reading It.
10:50 Derrida Rejects Logocentrism, All Forms Of Thought Which Has As Its Basis, An External Point Of Reference, Some Notion Of Truth, He Rejects. …”Differance” [sic]…The Attempt To Determine The Meaning Of A Text Results Only In Interpretation; A Further Text, Which Requires A Further Text, Ad infinitum
12:20 Barbara Johnson’s The Purloined Preface, A Decontruction Of Derrida’s Article, In Which He Was Deconstructing Jacques Lacan’s Deconstruction Of Edger Allan Poe’s Text, The Purloined Letter.
12:44 Deconstructionist’s Agenda – Transform Entire Ways Of Thinking For “Justice.” They Wish To Use Deconstuctive Criticism To Challenge The Text And To Turn It Back On Itself… The Critic Accomplishes This By Recognizing The Binary Hierarchical Oppositions Within Text.
13:53 GLB Gives Examples Of Such Binary Hierarchical Oppositions… The Role Of The Deconstructive Critic Is A Process Which Seeks To Overturn These Oppositions…
15:09 “Hermeneutical Violence”
15:28 J Hillis Miller’s Decontruction Of John Milton’s Paradise Lost
17:32 Rene Wellek Quote
17:57 GLB Asks The Question With Regard To Deconstructionism, “From Within A Non-Christian Worldview, Can The Cogency Or Intelligibility Be Granted To It On The Basis Of Its Own Premises?” …The Deconstructionist’s Defense Of Inconsistency
20:26 GLB Summarizes Derrida’s Position As The Old Philosophical Position Of Skepticism, APPLIED TO TEXT. …WHY WOULD WE TAKE THE RECOMMENDATION OF THOSE WHO SAY THAT IT’S TRUE THERE IS NO TRUTH? …A DECONSTRUCTIVE CRITIC CANNOT, BY HIS OWN RULES, TELL US WHY WE SHOULD CONTINUE TO DO CRITICISM. A TRULY DECONSTRUCTIVE CRITIC WOULD HAVE TO CEASE WRITING. …HE SHOULD REFUSE TO USE LANGUAGE TO COMMUNICATE THE MEANINGLESSNESS OF LANGUAGE. …THE ONLY HONEST DECONTRUCTIONIST, IS A SILENT ONE!
23:10 GLB Expands On The Problems The Non-Christian Worldview Of The Departments Of The “University”
26:10 What’s Spawned By The Non-Christian Worldviews Of The University? …What Kind Of Culture Do We Have?
26:34 Musical Arts Culture
27:06 Visual Arts Culture …Marquis de Sade
27:38 Political Culture … Corrupt Politicians… But Why Not Be Corrupt, Hypocritical, & Selfish? … No Business Being In Iraq …Statism
29:32 Economic Culture …Fiat Money & A Manipulated Value On Our Money. …Legalized Theft Through Taxation …National Debt (4Trillion When Recorded…Presently, in 2023, Over 31TRILLION!)
30:55 Intellectual Culture …Jean Paul Sartre, Bertrand Russell (Wretched)…
32:06 Sexual & Family Culture (More Than Half Of Marriages End In Divorce) A MILLION BABIES KILLED YEARLY!
33:39 Summary
38:53 QUESTIONS
Many in the academic profession hide behind the myth of neutrality. Dr. Bahnsen exposes this myth and demonstrates the impossibility of neutrality in our thinking, laying bare the unbelieving college professor’s “dirty little secret”: non-Christian worldviews do not and cannot provide the the intellectual preconditions necessary for any of the departments of the university, much less the university itself. (TBI)
