Like Nietzsche and Heidegger before him, Derrida attempts to perform a de(con) struction of the ontotheological character of metaphysics through an overcoming of the founding, metaphysical dualisms of Western thought. But none of these thinkers gives sufficient attention to an understanding of Judaeo-Christian thought before it is synthesized with Greek and modern rationalisms; therefore, when these philosophers claim to have performed a de (con)-struction of the whole of Western thought, their projects are severely limited by being blind to one of the most powerful influences on this thought. I want to demonstrate here that Derrida's deconstruction of the logocentrism of Western thought undermines only the human logos of Greek and modern rationalism, not the divine logos of biblical, Christian theology.

In an interview transcribed in Positions, Derrida describes “a kind of general strategy of deconstruction,” composed of two movements by which he deconstructs metaphysical dualisms.