Why can't any of the philosophers give a straightforward definition of decon

Question: Why can't any of the philosophers give a straightforward definition of deconstruction!?

Why can't any of them just say "this is what deconstruction does" "this is what it is"!? I know that it is complex, but I've been reading some of Derrida's essays and he always just seems to beat around the bush rather than tell what it is and what it does!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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The deconstructionists don't "come right out and say" what they mean because what they mean is -- you can never really come out and say what you mean!

As a group they are trying to act out the Hegelian notion of an Absolute that contains its negation within itself!.

Every text contains its negation within itself!. What it seems at first to say, it will prove upon closer ispection to not-say, to contradict!. This isn't because the author had two diferent levels of meaning involved!. The "author" rather disappears anyway!. The "text" is what matters, and it generates its own meanings however as a matter of history it came to be!.

The text generates its own meanings, and these are always slipping away from us when we try to understand them!. There! that is as close as one can come to "just saying it!."

And now you understand why Derrida doesn't just say it!. He's acting it out!.

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deconstruction!.!.!. is caused by "THOUGHT"!.!.!.it only analyses what it cannot explain!.!. through!.!. known theories!.

try staying 100% silent with yourself!!!.!. and this whole "deconstruction":!.!. thing vanishes!!Www@QuestionHome@Com