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The term '''''deconstruction''''' was coined by French philosopher [[Jacques Derrida]] in the 1960s and is used in contemporary [[humanities]] and [[social sciences]] to denote a philosophy of meaning that deals with the ''ways'' that [[meaning]] is constructed and understood by writers, texts, and readers. One way of understanding the term is that it involves discovering, recognizing, and understanding the underlying — and unspoken and implicit — assumptions, ideas, and frameworks that form the basis for thought and belief. It has various shades of meaning in different areas of study and discussion, and is, by its very nature, difficult to define without depending on "un-deconstructed" concepts.

==The difficulty in defining deconstruction==

*[[Robert Moynihan|Moynihan, Robert]], ''Recent Imagining: Interviews with Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartmen, Paul DeMan, J. Hillis Miller'' (Shoe String Press 1986). ISBN 0208021205.

*[[Richard Rorty|Rorty, Richard]], "From Formalism to Poststructuralism", in ''The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism'', Vol.8, Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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