Jacques Derrida
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Jacques Derrida is the leader of the Deconstructionist movement. Borrowing from Nietzsche's process of genealogy, deconstruction seeks to read a text against itself. It is done through the revealing of the signs every sign is pointing to, in infinite reference, that a subject of interest (such as a text) can be better understood.
The concept of Differánce relies on this space - the reference - from sign to sign. That it is in the space between meaning that meaning even exists.