Deconstruction

  Deconstruction first emerged in 1966 due to Jacques Derrida's paper "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences". In this essay Derrida questions the Western philiosopy since the time of Plato; he suggests that there is no ultimate truth in writing but instead that there are multiple interpretations. There are three areas of which Derrida exams writing that allows us to better understand his approach; the structure of the text, the radical changes he makes to Western philosophy and metaphysics, and the new termology.

The key behind this theory is that there is an ultimate center, transcendental signified according to Plato, and Derrida is suggesting that we view the piece of work with a different center; placing value onto something else and then analysis the text according to that new "center".