Jacques Derrida

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Jacques Derrida is the leader of the Deconstructionist movement. Borrowing from Nietzsche's process of genealogy, deconstruction seeks to read a text against itself. This is done through the revealing of the signs every sign is pointing to, in infinite reference. Deconstruction stipulates that a subject of interest (such as a text) can be better understood through this manner, and through a word Derrida is hesitant to use, allows the reconstruction of new meanings or better understandings.

The concept of Differánce relies the space between every sign. That it is in the space between meaning that meaning even exists.