In the 1980s, the Postmodernism era, deconstruction was being put to use in a range of

theoretical enterprises in the humanities and social sciences,[11] including law[12][13][14] anthropology,
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historiography,[16] linguistics,[17] sociolinguistics,[18] psychoanalysis, feminism, and LGBT studies.

In the continental philosophy tradition, debates surrounding ontology, epistemology,

ethics, aesthetics, hermeneutics, and philosophy of language still refer to it today. Within
architecture it has inspired deconstructivism, and it remains important in general within art,
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music,[20] and literary criticism.[21]