2.  Definition
 Main Characteristics
 Main Figures

4. Definition of :
 Deconstruction is not a theory unified
by any set of consistent rules or
procedures.
 It has been variously regarded as a
way of reading, a mode of writing, and,
above all, a way of challenging
interpretations of texts based upon
conventional notions of the stability of
the human self, the external world, and
of language and meaning.

6. Main Characteristics:
 Deconstruction is often regarded as
undermining all tendency toward
systematization.
 The most fundamental project of
deconstruction is to display the operations
of “logocentrism” in any “text”.
Logocentrism refers to any system of
thought which is founded on the stability
and authority.

7. Main Characteristics:
 Deconstruction tries to reinstate language
within the connections of the various terms
that have conventionally dominated Western
thought: the connections between thought and
reality, self and world, subject and object.
 For deconstructionists, there is no “truth” or
“reality” which somehow stands outside or
behind language: truth is a relation of linguistic
terms, and reality is a construct, ultimately
religious, social, political, and economic, but
always of language, of various linguistic
registers.

9. Jacques Derrida (1930–
2004)
 Jacques Derrida is responsible for the
pervasive phenomenon in modern
literary and cultural theory known as
“deconstruction.”

10. Jacques Derrida (1930–
2004)
 Derrida has conducted deconstructive
readings of numerous major thinkers.
 Derrida’s seminal work, “Structure,
Sign, and Play” exhibits some of the
persistent concerns of deconstruction
and reveals both what he owes to
structuralism and his divergence from it.