DECONSTRUCTION

Deconstruction

Deconstruction is a literary theory and philosophy of language derived principally from Jacques Derrida's 1967 work Of Grammatology. The premise of deconstruction is that all of Western literature and philosophy implicitly relies on a metaphysics of presence, where intrinsic meaning is accessible by virtue of pure presence. Deconstruction denies the possibility of a pure presence and thus of essential or intrinsic meaning.

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deconstruction

Noun

  1. a philosophical theory of textual criticism; a form of critical analysis
  2. The destroying or taking apart of an object; disassembly.


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