The idea of deconstruction is associated with ................ .
Jacques Derrida
Deconstruction is a method of critical reading developed by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, first set out in Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference and Speech and Phenomena (all 1967).
It shows that every text rests on unstable binary oppositions (speech/writing, presence/absence, nature/culture) in which one term is privileged; reading closely exposes how the text undermines its own hierarchy. Derrida's notion of différance captures the endless deferral of meaning.
Saussure supplied the structural linguistics that Derrida critiqued, Heidegger's idea of Destruktion was only an influence, and the Frankfurt School developed critical theory, not deconstruction.
Hence, the answer is Jacques Derrida.
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