Derrida and Deconstruction

Jacques Derrida was an Algerian born French philosopher best known for development form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction. He is one of the major figures associated with post structuralism and postmodern philosophy.

The term deconstruction has become very popular in literary criticism and theory, it's precise meaning is extremely problematic. It has had an enormous influence in psychology, literary theory, culture studies linguistics feminism, sociology and anthropology.

It has influenced a wide range of theoretical approaches to literary studies like feminism and gender studies, cultural materialism, new historicism post colonial studies,Marxism, pychologysis and so on.

It involves the close reading of text has irreconcilable contradictory meanings, rather than being a unified, logical whole. When we try to find out different between structuralism theory and Deconstruction concept.