Definition of Deconstructs

1. Verb. (third-person singular of deconstruct) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Deconstructs

1. deconstruct [v] - See also: deconstruct

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deconstructs

deconstructing
deconstruction
deconstructional
deconstructionism
deconstructionist
deconstructionists
deconstructions
deconstructive
deconstructively
deconstructivism
deconstructivist
deconstructivistic
deconstructivists
deconstructor
deconstructors
deconstructs (current term)
decontaminate
decontaminated
decontaminates
decontaminating
decontamination
decontaminations
decontaminator
decontaminators
decontextualise
decontextualised
decontextualises
decontextualising
decontextualization
decontextualizations

Literary usage of Deconstructs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. New English Canaan: Notes & Text by Thomas Morton (2000)
"But, like Canaan, they call for a kind of study that not only deconstructs the marauding Western European "individual," and "reveals" ..."

2. The Legitimacy of International Organizations by Jean-Marc Coicaud (2001)
"... society reinforces Mackinnon's point of the ambivalence of modern liberal discourse, which deconstructs the idea of natural hierarchy amongst humans but ..."

3. South African Social Attitudes: Changing Times, Diverse Voices by Stephen P. Rule, Udesh Pillay, Benjamin Roberts (2007)
"The chapter first deconstructs and defines key features of national identity and national pride, and discusses their interdependence. ..."

4. Conceptions of Social Inquiry by J. J. Snyman (1993)
"higher logical principle or superior reason but uses the very principle it deconstructs. The concept of causation is not an error that philosophy could or ..."

5. At the Crossroads: Ict Policy Making in East Africa by Florence Ebam Etta, Laurent Elder (2005)
"Heeks deconstructs e-governance into three aspects: improving government processes (e-administration), connecting citizens (e-citizens and e-services) and ..."

6. Creating Wealth from Waste by Robin Murray (1999)
"Xerox has now opened a plant in New York that deconstructs all its machines, recycles the plastics and builds the new machines out of the pellets produced. ..."

7. Passive Tranquility: The Sculpture of Filippo Della Valle by Vernon Hyde Minor (1997)
"125 Just as Derrida problematizes and deconstructs Kant's philosophy of the parergon, the design elements of eighteenth-century sculpture and architecture, ..."

8. Crossover: Architecture, Urbanism, Technology by Ad Graafland, Leslie Jaye Kavanaugh, George Baird (2006)
"While critical architecture deconstructs the discourse of architecture, demystifies the status quo, or locates alternative worlds in the margin, ..."

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