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Deconstruction "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty told Alice, "it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master-that's all." (1) Deconstruction can be seen as a long commentary on this conversation between Alice and Humpty Dumpty. It represents a way of thinking about language, meaning, reading, politics, culture, institutions and the aims of scholarly endeavour. Deconstruction has the usual problems of definition. Part of the problem with defining or describing deconstruction is that one of its claims is that definitions or descriptions are never correct. They are always deceptions-constructions of truth which can be shown to be deficient at certain points. Deconstruction is a way of reading or interpreting texts which seeks not to discover what they mean, but why they can't mean what...

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