deconstructv.
transitive. (a) To undo the construction of, to take to pieces. (b) Philosophy and Literary Theory. To subject to deconstruction; to analyse and reinterpret in accordance with the ‘strategy’ associated with Jacques Derrida.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosophy of language > language theories of individual philosophers > linguistic theories [verb (transitive)]
analyse1779
deconstruct1973
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > separate into constituents [verb (transitive)] > take apart
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to take apart1744
demount1756
disarticulate1808
dismount1859
disassemble1881
destructure1951
deconstruct1973
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > practise literary criticism [verb (transitive)] > type of
deconstruct1973
1973 D. B. Allison tr. J. Derrida Speech & Phenomena vi. 77 One cannot attempt to deconstruct this transcendence.
1976 G. C. Spivak in J. Derrida Of Grammatology 322 Ricoeur delivers hermeneutic interpretations of several texts that Derrida deconstructs.
1977 Dædalus Fall 108 This second perspective deconstructs the first; it seems to bring about a reversal, explaining meaning not by prior conventions but by acts of imposition.
1979 PN Rev. X. 38/1 Derrida sets out to uncover (or ‘deconstruct’) the manifold traps and illusions which philosophy has created for itself.
1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Dec. 1466/4 One ‘deconstructs’ the confused, erroneous picture of knowledge as representation, philosophy as foundational, the mind as a separate locus.
1984 A. Brookner Hotel du Lac v. 76 If I were younger and more trendy I should probably say that I could deconstruct the signifiers of your discourse.
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