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* Richard Rorty was a prominent interpreter of Derrida's philosophy.

His definition of deconstruction is that, " the term ' deconstruction ' refers in the first instance to the way in which the ' accidental ' features of a text can be seen as betraying, subverting, its purportedly ' essential ' message.

" ( The word accidental is used here in the sense of incidental.