Deconstruction is essentially an eighteenth-century philosophical strategy

Evidence

From this perspective DeMan was an eighteenth-century mechanical materialist, and much that strikes the postcontemporary reader as peculiar and idiosyncratic about his work will be clarified by juxtaposition with the cultural politics of the great Enlightenment philosophes: their horror of religion, their campaign against superstition and error (or “metaphysics”). In that sense, deconstruction itself, as closely or distantly related to Marxian ideological analysis as Islam to Christianity, can be seen to be an essentially eighteenth-century philosophical strategy. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 542

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s work on ideology critique and periodization of intellectual styles — deconstruction as a periodizable form, parallel to how aesthetic forms are periodizable. — connects to: Ideologies apply the logic of an idea to history as an unfolding process. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1061
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Ideologies apply the logic of an idea to history as an unfolding process. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1061