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I tried for the longest time to find out what deconstructionism was. Nobody was able to explain it to me clearly. The best answer…

— Margaret Atwood

I think the purpose of deconstruction is to take something apart and see how it works. If you're not going to put it back…

— Kurt Busiek

There is no rigorous and effective deconstruction without the faithful memory of philosophies and literatures, without the respectful and competent reading of texts of…

— Jacques Derrida

That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been given…

— Jacques Derrida

“the great philosopher of deconstruction: in”

— Sarah Bakewell

“To deconstruct a concept is to analyze it in a way which reveals its construction—both in the temporal sense of its birth and development…

— Robert Jensen

I would say that deconstruction is affirmation rather than questioning, in a sense which is not positive: I would distinguish between the positive, or…

— Jacques Derrida

What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical,…

— Harold Bloom

Deconstruction is not meant to be a soft sighing for the future, but a way of deciding now and being impassioned in a moment.

— John D. Caputo

All sentences of the type 'deconstruction is X' or 'deconstruction is not X', a priori miss the point, which is to say that they…

— Jacques Derrida

“she does with much asperity: "Dear Ms X, I acknowledge your letter concerning your proposed thesis, though I can't say its title makes a…

— Margaret Atwood

“The intellectual project of decolonizing has to set out ways to proceed through a colonizing world. It needs a radical compassion that reaches out,…

— Zed Books