Deconstruction Deconstruction is a philosophical-critical approach to textual analysis that is most closely associated with the work of Jacques Derrida in philosophy and the Yale School (Paul DeMan, J. Hillis Miller, Geoffrey Hartman) in literary...

Form of post-structuralist linguistic analysis in which the signified is examined for the ‘play’ of meanings in regard to the signifier’s...

DECONSTRUCTION. The word deconstruction was coined by French philosopher Jacques Derrida (1930–2004), with whom the movement of that same name is identified. Derrida rejects the classical anthropological model of language, according to which the...

Deconstruction is a term in contemporary philosophy, literary criticism, and the social sciences, denoting a process by which the texts and languages of Western philosophy (in particular) appear to shift and complicate in meaning when read in light of...

Deconstructing Deconstruction The Rhetoric of Church and State by Frederick Mark Gedicks Duke University Press (1995) I. INTRODUCTION In The Rhetoric of Church and State,l Frederick Mark Gedicks attempts to weave a common thread through what has become, by...

When a baseball player hears the word "strike," he will respond quite differently from the pilot of a fully armed F-15 cruising over, say, Iraq. The word "fly" is one thing to an outfielder and another to a fisherman. When a politician puts a...

coverage. The Harvard Crimson has thrashed the Times and all others on the Kaavya Viswanathan story. Today the Times failed to include a key statement in the case the Crimson reported, Random House's pointed charge to Little, Brown that its author Megan McCafferty, was...

The overtly sexual lyrics, throaty whisper and infectious beat of the radio hit were the topic of discussion at one of the first panels of the 2005 CMJ Music Festival on Wednesday, September 14, where five music writers debated on whether the song is misogynistic...

In the following essay, Allison examines elements of deconstruction theory in several texts by Nietzsche, also commenting on Derrida's interpretation of those texts.

In the following essay, de Vries presents an overview of issues raised by deconstruction theory as it was introduced and flourished in the United States.

In the following essay, Cole focuses on the critical theory of de Man, suggesting that his deconstruction of meaning in literature leads not to liberation from tradition, but to a logical dead end.