logocentrism
Definitions
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- noun The analysis of literature, focusing on the words and grammar to the exclusion of context or literary merit.
Examples
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The homegrown logocentrism that prevailed among them distinguished them in a region where men were supposed to be taciturn.
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The result is a "centrism," which Derrida characterizes, because of the master quality of the name logos for Greek thought, as "logocentrism."
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It is the encyclopedic protection of theology and of logocentrism against the disruption of writing, agains its aphoristic energy, and, as I shall specify later, against difference in general.
Note
The word 'logocentrism' is a blend of logo- + centrism.