Jacques Derrida's practice of reading philosophical and literary texts to expose the hierarchical binary oppositions they depend on and the internal contradictions that undermine their claims to stable meaning.
Shows that texts are structured by oppositions (presence/absence, speech/writing, literal/figurative) where one term is privileged but depends on the other; deconstruction inverts and then displaces these hierarchies, revealing the undecidability at the heart of meaning.
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