Definitions
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- noun Same as
decontruction{1} .
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- noun The belief in, or application of,
deconstruction .
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- 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
Etymologies
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Examples
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For those of us who think deconstructionism is nonsensical, it's actually a reason to doubt that our beliefs are formed this way.
Darwin's God 2007
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Yet, there is a sense that even in deconstructionism, the interpreter is somehow getting deeper even if at the same moment she is flying out on wings of ever receding signification.
So, that homework I mentioned? This is part of it . . . | Living the Liminal 2005
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And then the second idea was what the French would now call deconstructionism, where you show the process of doing the things.
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Dearest Lady Lydia, you may wish to inform our dear Miss Troll that regardless of any technical definition of 'deconstructionism', the results are all the same; the distruction of the coherence of society and the elevation of the self and individualism as preferable.
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Influenced by developments in literary criticism such as deconstructionism and postmodernism, some women’s historians increasingly turned to theoretical issues.
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This sort of deconstructionism has been done to death, and is so familiar and enfeebled that it can barely lift the gun to its own head.
Jerry Saltz: Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions About George Condo, Online Art Fairs, and What Abstraction Really Is Jerry Saltz 2011
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So, engaging in a little po-mo deconstructionism, we learn that Obama is a liar and Feingold is a fool.
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But how many Catholic schools out there actually provide students with a meaningful education in Western thought, as opposed to merely dunking them repeatedly in the trendy "isms" — feminism, multiculturalism, deconstructionism, post-modernism, etc. — of our time?
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But in later years she became of the mindset that spiritual transcendence could only be achieved through total deconstructionism.
Dharma and Bert marshallpayne1 2009
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This sort of deconstructionism has been done to death, and is so familiar and enfeebled that it can barely lift the gun to its own head.
Jerry Saltz: Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions About George Condo, Online Art Fairs, and What Abstraction Really Is Jerry Saltz 2011
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