| Derrida and Foucault's whole deconstructive enterprise might be seen as an exercise in animadversion on the Western cultural process of translation. |
| One aspect of the deconstructive turn is the realization that things that we take for granted as givens are in fact inventions. |
| The subversive element inherent in the deconstructive enterprise is another reason that it has exercised such a mesmerizing spell on intellectuals. |
| This displacement operates in the deconstructive move put into practice by the reading and rereading of great texts of the past. |
| Both envision critical theory as a constructive, not just a deconstructive project. |
| In deconstructive and psychoanalytic readings in particular, this allegedly pure and self-referential language returns to haunt the text's unity, coherence, and independence. |
