Deconstruction challenges conventional notions of stability in language, meaning, and interpretation. It undermines tendencies toward systematization and instead focuses on displaying "logocentrism", or how language constructs reality and truth. The goal is to reinstate language as relational and constructed rather than reflecting external realities. Jacques Derrida is largely responsible for developing deconstruction through his readings of major thinkers and seminal work on the nature of structure, sign, and play in language and meaning.