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postdeconstructive

postdeconstructive adjective: pertaining to or characteristic of a style of analysis moving beyond deconstructionism.

Adjective

postdeconstructive (comparative more postdeconstructive, superlative most postdeconstructive)

  1. Pertaining to or characteristic of a style of analysis moving beyond deconstructionism.
    • Obviously, I make no claims to a corner on the whole truth—and I argue that Lucan too would reject such claims as inimical to the spirit of his project. If it is true that some readers may find this book’s version of the poet and his work to be too well-tailored to the postdeconstructive atmosphere...1997, Shadi Bartsch, Ideology in Cold Blood: A Reading of Lucan’s Civil War, →ISBN, page 3
    • The critical tradition has a lot to say about the distorting effects of othering but has yet to even imagine the mind that is postdeconstructive—“the subject after deconstruction […]”.2008, Robert Hattam, “Socially-Engaged Buddhism as a Provocation for Critical Pedagogy in Unsettling Times”, in Claudia Eppert, Hongyu Wang, editors, Cross-cultural Studies in Curriculum: Eastern...

Forms of postdeconstructive

comparativemore postdeconstructive
superlativemost postdeconstructive

Origin of postdeconstructive

From post- + deconstructive.

Questions about postdeconstructive

What does postdeconstructive mean?
Postdeconstructive means pertaining to or characteristic of a style of analysis moving beyond deconstructionism.
What part of speech is postdeconstructive?
Postdeconstructive is an adjective.

Words near postdeconstructive in the dictionary

  1. postdeceases
  2. postdeceasing
  3. postdecimal
  4. postdecisional
  5. postdecisional regret
  6. postdeconstructive
  7. postdecree
  8. postdecrement
  9. postdecretal
  10. postdefection
  11. postdefervescence

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