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What does logocentrism mean?

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Noun
  1. The analysis of literature, focusing on the words and grammar to the exclusion of context or literary merit.
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Fu opposes poststructuralist readings of the body which posit solidarity between logocentrism and phallocentrism.
But the relativism espoused by RD is one in which Europe is viewed as the fount of logocentrism while Africa is required to bask in its vaunted humour and innocent gaiety.
Eisenman's later projects rely heavily on Jacques Derrida's concept of logocentrism.
This is a principle wholly at odds with logocentrism and the metaphysics of presence.
It is the colonialist thesis of a dynamic Western logocentrism and a static, even primordial Africa.
In Derrida's opinion, logocentrism attributes to logos the origin of truth.

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