Deconstruction questions truth-production rather than denying truth.

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. That’s why deconstruction doesn’t say logocentrism is a pathology, or metaphysical enclosures are something you can escape. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 72

Categorization

• DEFINE: Precise definition of deconstruction that bears directly on distinguishing strategic use of essentialism from literal belief — the former is Spivak’s whole method.
• XREF: connects to: Deconstruction questions truth-privileging without denying truth exists — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 243; Deconstruction differs from exposing error and treats justice as its aim. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1229; Defeat demands destroying old representations and truth to recognise transformed reality — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1559

Broader Connections

• Deconstruction questions truth-privileging without denying truth exists #corroborates (1.00) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 243