Deconstruction necessarily operates within the metaphysics it contests

Evidence

The Distinction imposed on moral philosophy was, in one important sense, inevitable because this “philosophy cannot admit the existence of true metaphysics without destroying itself.” Of course the denial of metaphysics in the name of science, or of any such entity as can determine the truth of matter, is itself a type of metaphysics, but Guénon choses for it the less-charitable term “superstition.” — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 294 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Yet what is worth asking today about this seemingly Utopian and unrealizable vision of an authentic or a “textualized” existence in full Postmodernism is whether it has not already in some sense become socially realized, and whether it may not very precisely be one of the transformations of everyday life and of the psychic subject designated by the term postmodern. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 732 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Critiquing transubstantiation as metaphysical leaves the present more wedded to ontic metaphysics; Denying metaphysics in favor of science is itself a metaphysical position — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 294; The utopian ideal of deconstructive existence may already be socially realized as postmodernism — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 732 (+2 more)

Related

• Critiquing transubstantiation as metaphysical leaves the present more wedded to ontic metaphysics (similarity 0.89)
• Denying metaphysics in favor of science is itself a metaphysical position (similarity 0.83)
• The utopian ideal of deconstructive existence may already be socially realized as postmodernism (similarity 0.83)
• Modernity survives by denying that it too rests on a metaphysics. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Critiquing transubstantiation as metaphysical leaves the present more wedded to ontic metaphysics #exemplifies (0.85)
• Denying metaphysics in favor of science is itself a metaphysical position #corroborates (0.80) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 294
• The utopian ideal of deconstructive existence may already be socially realized as postmodernism #expands (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 732