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DECONSTRUCTION
A concept central to post-modernism, this is a process of rigorously analyzing and making apparent the assumptions, judgments and values that underlie social arrangements and intellectual ideas. Authors such as J. Derrida reject the idea that there is any correspondence between texts and truth, suggesting that texts (eg: the writing of Marx or Plato) have no objective links to external events. This being so these texts are not used to learn about the external events or to evaluate those events. Rather the text is only examined internally to search for the hidden text (or subtext) which gives meaning. See: POSTMODERN / .

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