Donconstructionthe Secret Sharer

             Deconstruction is a post-structural school of philosophy and literary criticism that was developed by French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Although he is credited with its origins, he seems to have borrowed heavily from German philosophers, Friedrich Neitzsche and Martin Heidegger, who " radically questioned the validity of basic philosophical concepts" and Chinese philosopher, Lao Tse who embraced the harmony of opposites. In one of his short texts Tse wrote:
             Therefore having and not having arise together.
             Difficult and easy complement each other.
             Voices and sound harmonize each other.
             Therefore the sage goes about doing nothing,
             The ten thousand things rise and fall without cease,
             Many consider deconstruction as destruction of a text, but it is actually an in depth analysis or undoing of a piece of literature. R.V. Young, in his offering At War With the Word says, "The typical procedure of deconstruction is to grasp a loose thread in the textual weave of a discourse and to proceed with the unraveling". This "loose thread" may be a word or phrase, in which the critic finds significant meaning in relation to the text, whether logically, ontologically, referentially, hierarchically, semantically or etymologically. The ultimate objective of deconstruction is to criticize the tradition of Western philosophy with all its perceived superlatives and hierarchical oppositions.
             Derrida believes that Western society tends to think in terms of opposites such as black/white, masculine/feminine, speech/writing with the first term being privileged over the other. Though Derrida recognizes these differences, his objective is not to reverse the hierarchy of the oppositions, but rather to show that they can be studied in terms of presence, absence and differences. In other words, texts do not say "A and not B", but rather "A and not A".
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