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The many answers to "What is deconstruction?"  
   
  "a way of doing philosophy"
"the latest fashion in literary theory" "a way of reading theoretical texts"
  "a positive device for making trouble"
"a traumatic response to philosophical certainties"  
"an ancient error of skepticism and irrationalism" "a repetition of dead-end themes in German idealism"
"a quasi-transcendentalism"  
"an ethical response to conceptual complacency"  
  "a needless and frivolous hermeticism"
"a sustained assault on the Western philosophical tradition"  
   
 
Source: Collins, J & Mayblin, B. (1996). Introducing Derrida. Penguin Group, Penguin Books Ltd.

 

I don't know much about these two authors but their book is quite Derridian--"comic-of sorts"

 

 

   
Fuzzification!

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"Sense"-less-ness

Art thou art!

 
Me!
I don't know much about me either.

 

   
"...turn dialogue into monologue"
"...the death of objective truth"
"...the author is trying to break into the house of our mind with his ideas. How dare we close the door, and substitute our ideas, our beliefs, for his?"
"...the philosophy of Hell"
 
Kreeft, P. (1993). Christianity for modern pagans. San Francisco: Ignatius Press
Professor of philosophy at Boston College.