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'''Deconstruction''' is the [[postmodernism|postmodern]] belief that each person interprets a [[text]] in light of their own experiences, [[bias]]es, and [[prejudice]]s.<ref>Noebel, David, ''Understanding the Times'' (Summit Ministries, Manitou Springs, Colorado 2006)  ISBN 978-0936163000.</ref>  Thus, no text can have the same meaning for all [[people]].  A text's [[message]] depends entirely upon personal interpretation.  Deconstruction holds an individual's interpretation of a text to be more important than the text itself
 
'''Deconstruction''' is the [[postmodernism|postmodern]] belief that each person interprets a [[text]] in light of their own experiences, [[bias]]es, and [[prejudice]]s.<ref>Noebel, David, ''Understanding the Times'' (Summit Ministries, Manitou Springs, Colorado 2006)  ISBN 978-0936163000.</ref>  Thus, no text can have the same meaning for all [[people]].  A text's [[message]] depends entirely upon personal interpretation.  Deconstruction holds an individual's interpretation of a text to be more important than the text itself
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Deconstruction is a theory of interpretation favored by [[liberal]]s. <ref>[http://www.theonion.com/content/node/27794 Grad Student Deconstructs Take-Out Menu] This article is a perfect example of a liberal using deconstruction in his daily life. Jon Rosenblatt was hungry and found himself deconstructing a take-out menu from a local Mexican restaurant. "Before he could decide on an order, he instinctively reduced the flyer to a set of shifting, mutable interpretations informed by the set of ideological biases—cultural, racial, economic, and political—that infect all ethnographic and commercial 'histories.'
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Deconstruction is a theory of interpretation favored by [[liberal]]s.
Rosenblatt woke up a neighbor at 2 am in his deconstructing rage and deduced that "any attempt to establish hierarchies and centralized power according to arbitrary dichotomies of 'right' and 'wrong' behaviors was therefore not only morally and philosophically, but also politically problematic, and, in fact, oppressive."</ref>
   
''The term “deconstruction” was coined by [[French]] philosopher Jacques Derrida in the 1960s.''<ref>''[http://www.bartleby.com/65/de/deconstr.html Deconstruction]'' in The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.</ref> <!-- http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=deconstruction indicates that the word dates from 1973, although that's probably the /English/ word, and perhaps he coined the French version earlier? -->
 
''The term “deconstruction” was coined by [[French]] philosopher Jacques Derrida in the 1960s.''<ref>''[http://www.bartleby.com/65/de/deconstr.html Deconstruction]'' in The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.</ref> <!-- http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=deconstruction indicates that the word dates from 1973, although that's probably the /English/ word, and perhaps he coined the French version earlier? -->
  
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