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What does Heidegger mean with Destruktion, is that the same as Derrida's deconstruction?
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Heideggerian destruktion is a hermeneutic practice specifically employed to demarcate conceptualizations of "what being is" across historical paths. Heidegger's central question and project is always "What is being?"--he is not satisfied with how the ancients, the scholastics, and even modern philosophers treated being (as beings). He thus seeks to "destroy" all conceptualizations of being hitherto; but by that he doesn't mean to just blow them apart and create something completely unrelated, but instead he seeks to transcend and integrate the former knowledge into an other, more "originary" type of knowledge. Later Heidegger differentiates between a "first beginning" and "other beginning" in Western philosophy whereas the other beginning would arise from fully grasping the first beginning.

For Derrida deconstruction flows from the structuralist and post-structuralist tenets of relational essences (i.e. there are no essences apart from context) and polarity. A thing only comes to itself as related to others things; a vast network of polarities generates the meaning of language constructs. Derrida believes one side of a pole is always privileged, while the other side is marginalized. Derrida does not mean to merely "destroy" polarity either; his project is in showing that valuations of polarity-constructs are arbitrary and hence always question-worthy.