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Derrida's Breakthrough And Focus
- Jacques Derrida popularized deconstruction through three simultaneous books in 1967 that changed literary and philosophical discourse.
- Deconstruction questions how concepts like truth and meaning are constructed rather than accepting them as fixed.
Deconstruction Reveals Internal Tensions
- Deconstruction inspects how an idea is built and reveals internal tensions rather than destroying it.
- The method works from within concepts and shows that instabilities are already present in the text or idea.
Close Reading As Philosophical Tool
- Derrida practiced extremely close reading to detect subtle inconsistencies and gaps within texts.
- He treated those small gaps as meaningful evidence about the text's assumptions and constructions.