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Highlight the key tenets of deconstruction

Highlight the key tenets of deconstruction

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1. Language is dynamic, ambiguous, unstable and continually disseminating possible
meanings.
2. Existence has no centre, no stable meaning, and no fixed ground.
3. Human beings are not homogenous; they are made of competing ideologies which arise
from their own inventions.
4. Human identity is man's invention which he can always re-invent i.e. existence can
always be re-defined.

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NatalieR answered the question on June 13, 2022 at 12:31

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