Deconstruction questions truth-privileging without denying truth exists

Evidence

Deconstruction does not say there is no subject, there is no truth, there is no history. It simply questions the privileging of identity so that someone is believed to have the truth. It is not the exposure of error. It is constantly and persistently looking into how truths are produced. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 243

Categorization

• DEFINE: Spivak’s own counter to the common misreading that deconstruction denies all truth — load-bearing for the strategic essentialism question since it shows how one can use identity terms without metaphysical commitment.
• XREF: connects to: Deconstruction questions truth-production rather than denying truth. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 72; Deconstruction questions the investigator’s authority without disabling action — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1738; Critique functions by questioning truth’s power effects and power’s truth effects — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 84 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Critique functions by questioning truth’s power effects and power’s truth effects #expands (0.90) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 84
• Deconstruction necessarily operates within the metaphysics it contests #qualifies (0.85)