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A few years back the Yale deconstructionist Paul de Man was posthumously discovered to have written repeatedly for a Belgian collaborationist journal during the Nazi occupation. So far as I am aware, de Man in his American period espoused no particular politics. Indeed, the Left frequently regarded this as a cause for complaint, since most of them (to some extent rightly, as we shall see) thought ofde Man and deconstruction as being their natural allies.
Don’t look for the meaning; look for the use.
Wittgenstein
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Grant, R. (2003). The Ideology of Deconstruction. In: Imagining the Real. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230599307_5
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