Even though that Derrida presented his philosophical of idea of deconstruction as a current and powerful philosophical innovation his method has a long history in philosophy.
Deconstruction can be traced from Socratic dialogues in Platos books. Socrates in his philosophical system tries to deconstruction any pre-conceptions and opinions by imposing a’ Gaming of truth’
Games of truth have set philosophy as the science of questions.
Also the main project of Buddhist philosophy is to deconstruct reality. This means to examine how and which ways the mind perceives things as stable and as self composed.