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Post-structuralism
Explanations > Critical Theory > Post-structuralism Description | Discussion | See also
DescriptionPost-structuralism holds that the notion of structuralism is too simplistic. It challenges hierarchies and binary opposites in favor of more analog understandings. It seeks to re-interpret and understand afresh historic works from Marx, Freud, and others. DiscussionPost-structuralism emerged in the 1960s, largely in France, as a challenge to structuralism in the humanities. There is no single cohesive work on post-structuralism. Barthes, Foucault, Derrida and Lévi-Strauss, along with others, all contributed. It has also been used in a political sense, associating structuralism with Western excesses and depravity. Post-structuralism is often included as an element of postmodernism. Much thought happened in French psychoanalysis on this, where the human Subject is subverted and overturned. The person is de-centered through the dominance of language, mirror images and unstoppable desire. See also |
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