Post-structuralism | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-15

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Post-structuralism


00:01:19 1 Theory
00:02:53 2 Post-structuralism and structuralism
00:03:51 2.1 Historical vs. descriptive view
00:04:56 2.2 Scholars between both movements
00:05:23 2.3 Controversy
00:08:33 3 History
00:09:58 4 Major works
00:10:07 4.1 Barthes and the need for metalanguage
00:11:05 4.2 Derrida's lecture at Johns Hopkins
00:12:28 5 See also
00:12:37 5.1 Authors



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Post-structuralism, sometimes referred as the French theory, is associated with the works of a series of mid-20th-century French continental philosophers and critical theorists who came to international prominence in the 1960s and 1970s. The term is defined by its relationship to the system before it—structuralism (an intellectual movement developed in Europe from the early to mid-20th century). Structuralism proposes that one may understand human culture by means of a structure—modeled on language (i.e., structural linguistics)—that differs from concrete reality and from abstract ideas—a "third order" that mediates between the two.Post-structuralist authors all present different critiques of structuralism, but common themes include the rejection of the self-sufficiency of structuralism and an interrogation of the binary oppositions that constitute its structures. Writers whose works are often characterised as post-structuralist include: Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Judith Butler,  Jean Baudrillard and Julia Kristeva, although many theorists who have been called "post-structuralist" have rejected the label.Existential phenomenology is a significant influence; Colin Davis has argued that post-structuralists might just as accurately be called "post-phenomenologists".