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deconstructionism
noun
The belief in, or application of, deconstruction .
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But the underlying question is: Why the ongoing fascination with deconstructionism and with the work of the philosopher whose radical works inspired it?
But Monty Python was really my first taste of what I guess we would call deconstructionism.
For anyone who studied literature in college in the past few decades, there is a weird familiarity about the current crisis: value, in the realm of finance capital, evokes the elusive nature of meaning in deconstructionism.
The Journal is waging a campaign against multiculturalism, slamming universities as sanctuaries for what William Bennett calls "the radical nihilism of post-modern art; homosexual and lesbian self-celebration; Marxism; Neo-Marxism; radical feminism and multiculturalism; deconstructionism; and various manifestations of political correctness".
Postmodernism, deconstructionism, cultural relativism, the "free spirit" scorning bourgeois morality, even New Age festivals like Burning Man can all ultimately be traced to him.
"Value, in the realm of finance capital, parallels the elusive nature of meaning in deconstructionism".
Although in "The Art of Telling" Mr. Kermode suggested that innovative French approaches to literary criticism like structuralism and deconstructionism might eventually find at least some place in the mainstream, he took to task some of the more radical attempts to subvert traditional texts through gender or racial perspectives.
Heather Mac Donald once studied literary deconstructionism and clerked for a left-wing judge.
But then I wasn't to know that the ruck outside the saleroom had been organised by the philosopher Jacques Derrida, the big dada of deconstructionism.
These terms are, like deconstructionism and post-structuralism, if not synonymous with postmodernism, then synchronous with it.
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"The Morning After" offers itself as personal testimony, with Roiphe to use her own analogy as a spunky, commonsensical Alice at the mad women's-studies-and-deconstructionism tea party familiar from the pages of Paglia and Dinesh D'Souza.
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