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In philosophy, deconstruction is a loosely defined set of approaches to understand the relationship between text and meaning. The concept of deconstruction was introduced by the philosopher Jacques Derrida, who described it as a turn away from Platonism's ideas of "true" forms and essences which are valued above appearances.[additional citation(s) needed][1] Since the 1980s, these proposals of language's fluidity instead of being ideally static and discernible have inspired a range of studies in the humanities,[2] including the disciplines of law,[3]: 3–76 [4][5] anthropology,[6] historiography,[7] linguistics,[8] sociolinguistics,[9] psychoanalysis, LGBT studies, and feminism. Deconstruction also inspired deconstructivism in architecture and remains important within art,[10] music,[11] and literary criticism.[12][13] Jacques Derrida's 1967 book Of Grammatology introduced the majority of ideas influential within deconstruction.[14]: 25 Derrida published a number of other works directl

Deconstruction - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Approach to understanding the relationship between text and meaning For other uses, see Deconstruction (disambiguation) . In philosophy , deconstruction is a loosely defined set of approaches to understanding the relationship between text and meaning . The concept of deconstruction was introduced by the philosopher Jacques Derrida , who described it as a turn away from Platonism 's ideas of "true" forms and essences which are valued above appearances. [ 1 ] American literary critic and major proponent of deconstru

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