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What does deconstruction mean?

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  1. (philosophy) A philosophical theory of textual criticism; a form of critical analysis that emphasizes inquiry into the variable projection of the meaning and message of critical works, the meaning in relation to the reader and the intended audience, and the assumptions implicit in the embodied forms of expression.
  2. The destroying or taking apart of an object; disassembly.
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Alas, these are the only two texts critical of deconstruction that I have ever found that also understand it.
Now they are performing a deconstruction of the chase and trying to find out what went wrong.
Derrida has two main ways of exposing these textual interplays, deconstruction and double reading.
Many contemporary writers are familiar with the procedures of post-structuralism and deconstruction.
And I don't think deconstruction is the only answer to modernity or contemporaneity.
Instead of discovering the profound truths of human reality, deconstruction dismantles them and reveals them to be illusions.

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