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
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -
in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us
to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions
all of a color.