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Key takeaways from How to deconstruct the world

Don’t believe everything you hear, read and watch. To puncture received ideas about culture, start thinking like Jacques Derrida

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Importantly, deconstruction is not destruction. The concept or object is still there at the end.

Anything that has been constructed can be deconstructed. This is true for objects, but is also true for concepts, such as God, justice and truth.

Read against the grain – bring unexpected concepts to your analysis, and see what this does to the text.

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