Associations to the word «Deconstruction»
Noun
- Psychoanalysis
- Modernism
- Feminism
- Critique
- Jacques
- Marxism
- Hegel
- Townsend
- Nietzsche
- Thinker
- Theorist
- Discourse
- Reconstruction
- Semantic
- Ethic
- Idealism
- Ism
- Openness
- Philosophy
- Semantics
- Gender
- Criticism
- Navarro
- Philosopher
- Contradiction
- Yale
- Feminist
- Aesthetics
- Addiction
- Modernity
- Theory
- Theology
- Impossibility
- Ambiguity
- Linguistic
- Essay
- Roland
- Buddhism
- Rhetoric
- Methodology
- Cindy
- Text
- Plato
- Hopper
- Genre
- Interpretation
- Meaning
- Meta
- Avery
- Metaphor
- Identity
- Dialogue
- Anthropology
- Assertion
- Concept
- Understanding
- Expose
- Racism
- Ethics
- Linguist
- Mushroom
- Myth
- Critic
- Construct
- Ideology
- Analysis
- Religion
- Parody
Adjective
Wiktionary
DECONSTRUCTION, noun. (philosophy) (literature) 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.
DECONSTRUCTION, noun. The destroying or taking apart of an object; disassembly.
Dictionary definition
DECONSTRUCTION, noun. 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.
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.