deconstruction

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[ UK /dˌiːkənstɹˈʌkʃən/ ]
[ US /dikənˈstɹəkʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning
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How To Use deconstruction In A Sentence

  • Finally, this paper explains what is the spirit of Marxism which Derrida always asks us to inherit, and what is the relationship between his deconstructionism and Marxism.
  • The present study is divided into three chapters, and each of them deals with one special pheonomeon of musical genre: modification, fusion, and deconstruction.
  • Call us a bunch of self-referential, mocking, postmodern deconstructionist ironicists, if you will. Times, Sunday Times
  • Similarly, structural analysis is replaced by deconstruction which also questions its objects rather than reflecting them.
  • The deconstruction of the pop sales process had become a breathy celebration of sales people.
  • Heschel applies a number of recent modes of analysis in explaining Geiger's oeuvre and assessing his career, drawing, for example, on gender theory, deconstructionism, and film theory.
  • In this regards yes, I think it is important to subject the doxology which is now assciated with his teachings, to the methods of deconstruction. Savitri Era Glasnost
  • It is not clear whether Elizabeth is referring here to the deconstructionist theory of the late twentieth century which undermined the assumption that texts have intentional, recuperable meanings — in which case Kafka is a bad example, because his texts were recognized as being radically indeterminate in meaning well before the advent of poststructuralism — or whether she is saying that Kafka was a kind of prophet of deconstruction. Disturbing the Peace
  • In China, To the Lighthouse is equally favoured, but criticism tends to concentrate on its writing techniques, and many essays attempt to provide a feminist or deconstructionist interpretation.
  • You say we should "deconstruct" all truth claims (a founder of "deconstructionism," Paul de Man. whose writings are still influential in American universities, was a Belgian fascist) because there are no facts, only opinions? Fascism's Second Spring
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