(1) In philosophical terms, deconstruction is a form of relativist scepticism in the tradition of Nietzsche.(2) Derrida has two main ways of exposing these textual interplays, deconstruction and double reading.(3) Many contemporary writers are familiar with the procedures of post-structuralism and deconstruction .(4) Many authors have criticized Derrida's attempts to find an ethical basis for deconstruction .(5) Alas, these are the only two texts critical of deconstruction that I have ever found that also understand it.(6) His solution, in so far as it is meant to be that, lies in what has become in recent years one of his most celebrated views, thanks to its being so congenial to deconstructionists .(7) To learn about postmodernism is to immerse oneself in a new paradigm, one that emphasizes pluralism and local narratives, skepticism and re-examination, deconstructionism and hermeneutics.(8) Heschel applies a number of recent modes of analysis in explaining Geiger's oeuvre and assessing his career, drawing, for example, on gender theory, deconstructionism , and film theory.(9) He has criticized liberal Protestantism, Marxism, Hegelianism, naturalism and deconstructionism .(10) While reality is not so subjective as postmodern philosophers and deconstructionist literary critics would have us believe, the words we use can have a powerful effect.(11) Pinker talks about relativism, social constructivism, science studies, cultural studies, critical theory, postmodernism, and deconstructionism .(12) They are like deconstructionists and post-modernists who say that everything is political or that everything is ideology.(13) From the dialectic materialism of Hegel to the deconstructionism of Jacques Derrida, these traditions distinguished themselves from the Anglo-American schools of analytic thought in both their content and their methodologies.(14) The reader is charged with the responsibility for making meaning and interpreting the text because, the deconstructionist argument goes, the text no longer provides a singular, authoritative meaning - if indeed it ever did.(15) He typifies as absurd the post-modern, deconstructionist school of literary criticism, which dismisses the importance of authorship or authorial intention, thus allowing a text to be read and interpreted in any way.
