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means A method of close reading that exposes the hidden contradictions and unstable assumptions buried inside a text or concept.

from Coined by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida in the late 1960s, who built it from 'construction' with the prefix 'de-' — but he was also leaning on the German 'Destruktion,' a term Martin Heidegger used for dismantling the history of philosophy back to its roots. Derrida wanted a word that meant neither simple destruction nor simple analysis, but something closer to un-building a structure from the inside to reveal how it was assembled — and where it secretly wobbles.