what's so special about deconstruction?

[Terri]

Sorry, some corrections: 

Terri wrote:
> 
> Just being pesky and picky, but the Platonic notion of Truth
> should 

NOT 

be confused with
> something hidden Beneath appearances, mere or otherwise. The
> Platonists argue that what appears to be real is merely
> intimations of a transcendent reality--Noumenal.
> Remember too, that for Plato the noumena are knowable by us,
> not so for Kant.
> 
> For the reality that is beneath, where the surface reality
> is mere manifestation of the
> underlying true reality, also known as Materialists, see in
> the Greeks--Democritus, in the Moderns, Nietzsche, Marx,
> Freud,   Eastern--Lao Tzu, also, Newton,
> Machiavelli, and Pynchon, 

But 

Einstein, Wittgenstein (who was converted by Tolstoy, but to
God and NOT to his reality) Max Weber, and Shakespeare are
not Materialists, but are, obviously,  Existentialists,
another tricky term.