Against Deconstruction

The focus of any piece of criticism or interpretation must be on the creative act of finding the new, but deconstruction puts the matter the other way around: i... » 

The focus of any piece of criticism or interpretation must be on the creative act of finding the new, but deconstruction puts the matter the other way around: its emphasis is on debunking the old. But aside from the fact that this program is inherently uninteresting, it is, in fact, not at all clear that it is possible. «